Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. *-īnizProto-West Germanicinherited from
2. *-anazProto-West Germanicinherited from
3. *-inīProto-West Germanicinherited from
4. *-anProto-West Germanicinherited from
5. *-īnąProto-West Germanicinherited from
6. *-an-Proto-West Germanicinherited from
7. *-īnazProto-West Germanicinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• supplicate

  English · inherited from

• -en

  Scots · inherited from

• -en

  English · inherited from

• -en

  Middle English · inherited from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root