Etymology

compeller

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English compel ← Middle English compellen ← Middle French compellir
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  3. Proto-Italic*kom
  4. Proto-Italic*kom-
  5. Latincon-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*pel-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*pelh₂-
  8. Proto-Italic*pelnō
  9. Latinpellō
  10. Latincompellere
  11. Middle Frenchcompellir
  12. Middle Englishcompellen
  13. Englishcompel
  14. English todaycompeller

From compel + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.