Word Origin Summary

-ín is attested in Irish. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *-iHnosProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from
2. -ινοςAncient Greekderived from
3. -ineEnglishborrowed from
4. -īnusLatinderived from
5. -ineFrenchderived from
6. -ineMiddle Englishinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• -een

  English · borrowed from

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