Where does “coneless” come from?
coneless (English) comes from English less, from Middle English les, from Old English lēas, from Proto-Germanic *laus.
coneless (English): Without a cone
Ancestry of “coneless”, step by step
coneless traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English less
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | less | To a smaller extent or degree; comparative form... |
| 2 | Middle English | les | false; lying; deceptive; falsehood; a lie |
| 3 | Old English | lēas | false, lax; false, void, loose; devoid of, loose... |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | *laus | — |
via English Cone
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | Cone | A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line |
| 2 | Middle English | cone | — |