English
emprison
From em- + prison.
Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- ‘to find’
…
Latin prehēnsiō ‘an act of seizing’
Old French prison
Old English prisūn ‘prison’
Middle English prisoun ‘prison’
English prison
Today it means
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Etymograph / emprison