The story
- Latin · derived fromaffirmare
- Old French · derived fromafermer
- Middle English · inherited fromaffermen
- English todayaffirm
From Middle English affermen, from Old French afermer, affermer, from Latin affirmare, adfirmare (“to present as fixed, aver, affirm”), from ad (“to”) + firmare (“to make firm”), from firmus (“firm”). By surface analysis, af- + firm.
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.