Etymograph

English

affuse

Affuse comes from Latin adfundo ‘I pour, sprinkle, or scatter onto’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵʰewd-1‘to pour’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵʰunédti1reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*hundō1‘to pour out’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfundō2‘to pour [out]’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadfundo3as affundō‘I pour, sprinkle, or scatter onto’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1661affuse3

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin fundo
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Latin adfundo
  3. 3 Wiktionary, English affuse
  4. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1661, Robert Boyle, (please specify the page): “[I] poured on them acid liquors, to try if…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵʰewd-Wiktionary, Latin fundo‘to pour’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵʰunédtiWiktionary, Latin fundoreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*hundōWiktionary, Latin fundo‘to pour out’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfundōWiktionary, Latin adfundo‘to pour [out]’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadfundoWiktionary, English affuseas affundō‘I pour, sprinkle, or scatter onto’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1661affuseWiktionary, English affuse. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1661, Robert Boyle, (please specify the page): “[I] poured on them acid liquors, to try if…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- ‘to pour’

yet, gut, font, refuse, effusive, 39 more

through Proto-Italic *hundō ‘to pour out’

confused, foundry, infusion, diffusion, fondue, perfusion, profusion, effusion, 34 more

through Latin fundō ‘to pour [out]’

foundation, founder, fundamental, confusion, refund, fusion, funnel, confuse, confound, diffuse, infuse, 45 more

Today it means

verb To pour out or upon.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “affuse”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Latin fundo, Latin adfundo. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- / affuse

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