verb/ɑ̃.ʃə.vɛ.tʁe/
to tangle up; to entangle, to involve, to implicate; to become tangled; to get tangled up, to get mixed up
Inherited from Middle French, Old French enchevestrer. By surface analysis, en- + chevêtre + -er. Alternatively, according to the TLFi, from a Vulgar Latin *incapistrāre or *encapistrāre, from Latin capistrāre. Compare Catalan, Occitan, and Spanish encabestrar; Portuguese encabrestar; Italian incapestrare; Romanian încăpăstra; and Sardinian incrabistare.