English

ingerminate

From in- + germinate.

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Germanic *in ‘into’

English in-

Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- ‘to produce’

Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁mn̥ ‘offspring”, “seed’

Proto-Italic *genamen

Latin germen ‘shoot, sprout, bud’

Today it means

verb To cause to germinate.

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

Etymograph / ingerminate