Etymology

environmental

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Today it means: Pertaining to the environment. Full definition →

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? ← English environment ← Middle French environnement
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Italic*en
  3. Old Latinen
  4. Latinin
  5. Old Frenchen
  6. Latinvibrāre?
  7. Vulgar Latin*virāre
  8. Old Frenchvirer
  9. Old Frenchviron
  10. Old Frenchenviron
  11. Middle Frenchenviron
  12. Middle Frenchenvironner
  13. Middle Frenchenvironnement
  14. Englishenvironment
  15. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  16. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  17. English todayenvironmental

From environment + -al.

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