700–601 BC

French words from Latin words first recorded in the 7th century BC

1 French word inherited from a Latin word whose earliest known written record dates from the 7th century BC, earliest Latin record first.

1. en

   699 BC–200 BC

   from Latin in

   1. The preposition “en” is inherited from Old French en, inherited from Latin in (“in, on, into”). The Strasbourg Oaths (842) still have the Latin form “in”. “En” appears at the end of the 9th…

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