Where does “inkvisitor” come from?

inkvisitor (Swedish) comes from Latin inquisitor, from Latin inquiro, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

inkvisitor (Swedish): inquisitor

Definitions

  1. inquisitor

Ancestry of “inkvisitor”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latininquisitorsearcher; inquisitor, tracker, detective, spy;...
2LatininquiroI seek after, search for, inquire into something;...
3Latinīn-un-, non-, not
4Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
5Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
6Proto-Italicenin
7Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “inkvisitor”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →Every word from Latin īn- →Every word from Proto-Italic en →