Where does “ampenaj” come from?
ampenaj (Romanian) comes from French empennage, from French empenner, from French en-, from Old French en-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
ampenaj (Romanian): empennage
Definitions
- empennage
Ancestry of “ampenaj”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | empennage | fletching; empennage |
| 2 | French | empenner | to fletch to attach feathers to an arrow |
| 3 | French | en- | en- all meanings |
| 4 | Old French | en- | en- in; into |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |