Etymograph

English

enprison

From en- + prison.

Formed from en- + prison

Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- ‘to find’

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Latin prehēnsiō ‘an act of seizing’

Old French prison

Old English prisūn ‘prison’

Middle English prisoun ‘prison’

English prison

Today it means

verb To imprison.

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

Etymograph / enprison