English

inmantle

From in- + mantle.

Formed from in- + mantle

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Germanic *in ‘into’

English in-

Latin mantum ‘Spanish cloak’

Latin mantellum

Proto-West Germanic *mantel ‘mantle, sleeveless cloak’

Old English mæntel ‘sleeveless cloak’

Middle English mantel ‘a mantle signifying clerical, judicial or…’

Today it means

verb To inwrap in a mantle; enshroud.

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

Etymograph / inmantle