The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*h₁n̥gʷnis
- Latin · derived fromignis“fire”
- Latin · borrowed fromignītus
- English todayignite
From Latin ignītus, past participle of igniō, ignire (“to set on fire, ignite”), from Latin ignis (“fire”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷnis, and thus related to Sanskrit अग्नि (agní), Lithuanian ugnis, and Russian ого́нь (ogónʹ).
Words from the same roots
Latinignis all →
igni-
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.