Where does “alawens” come from?
alawens (Tok Pisin) comes from English allowance, from Middle English allouance, from Old French alouance, from Old French alouer, from Latin allocō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în — in.
alawens (Tok Pisin): allowance
Ancestry of “alawens”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | allowance | permission; granting, conceding, or admitting;... |
| 2 | Middle English | allouance | — |
| 3 | Old French | alouance | payment; permission; instance of allowing |
| 4 | Old French | alouer | Alternative form of aloer |
| 5 | Latin | allocō | — |
| 6 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 8 | Latin | în | — |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |