Where does “onvoltooibaar” come from?
onvoltooibaar (Dutch) comes from Dutch voltooibaar, from Dutch voltooien, from Dutch vol, from Middle Dutch vol, from Old Dutch fol, from Proto-West Germanic full, from Proto-Germanic fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European pl̥h₁nós — to fill.
onvoltooibaar (Dutch): incompletable
Definitions
- incompletable
Ancestry of “onvoltooibaar”, step by step
onvoltooibaar traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch voltooibaar
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | voltooibaar | completable |
| 2 | Dutch | voltooien | to complete |
| 3 | Dutch | vol | full, replete |
| 4 | Middle Dutch | vol | full; whole, complete |
| 5 | Old Dutch | fol | full |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | full | full |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | fullaz | full; the whole, the entire |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | pl̥h₁nós | full |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pleh₁- | to fill |
via Dutch on
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | on | rarely used as shorthand for oneven (odd), the prefix on- means not (corresponds to English un-) |