Etymograph

English

enframe

From en- + frame.

Formed from en- + frame

Proto-Indo-European *pró ‘toward, leading to’

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Proto-Germanic *framjaną ‘to further, promote’

Proto-West Germanic *frammjan ‘to promote’

Old English fremman ‘to profit, avail, advance’

Middle English framen ‘to construct’

English frame

Today it means

verb To enclose in, or as if in, a frame.

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Etymograph / enframe