Inherit
Middle English enherite ‘receive as a right’, from Old French enheriter, from late Latin inhereditare ‘appoint as heir’, from Latin in- ‘in’ + heres, hered- ‘heir’.
wiktionary
From Middle English enheriten, from Old French enheriter, from Late Latin inhereditare(“make heir”). Replaced native Old English irfan, compare related noun erf(“inheritance”), from Middle English erve, from Old English yrfe, ierfe(“heritage, bequest, inheritance, property, inherited property, property that passes to an heir, cattle, livestock”), from Proto-Germanic *arbiją(“heritage”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰ-(“to change ownership”) (from which also *h₃órbʰos(“orphan”)).
etymonline
inherit (v.)
c. 1300, "to make (someone) an heir" (a sense now obsolete), from Old French enheriter "make heir, attribute the right of inheretance to, appoint as heir," from Late Latin inhereditare "to appoint as heir," from in- "in" (from PIE root *en "in") + Latin hereditare "to inherit," from heres (genitive heredis) "heir" (see heredity).
Sense of "receive inheritance, get by succession as representative of the former possessor" is attested from mid-14c.; in Medieval Latin inhereditare also had taken on a sense "put in possession." Original sense is retained in disinherit. Related: Inherited; inheriting; inheritable.
