English

accriminate

Accriminate comes from English criminate ‘accuse’.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

A compound of ac- ‘to’ + criminate ‘accuse’

Proto-Germanic *aiks ‘oak tree’

Proto-West Germanic *aik ‘oak’

Old English āc ‘oak’

English ac-

Proto-Indo-European *krey- ‘to sift, separate, divide’

Latin crīminātus ‘having accused’

Every English word from English criminate

verb To accuse of a crime.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.