Where does “costlessness” come from?
costlessness (English) comes from English costless, from English cost, from Middle English cost, from Middle English costen, from Old French couster, from Medieval Latin costo, from Latin consto, from Latin com- — a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden...
costlessness (English): The quality of being costless
Definitions
- The quality of being costless
Ancestry of “costlessness”, step by step
costlessness traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English costless
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | costless | having no cost |
| 2 | English | cost | To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price |
| 3 | Middle English | cost | means |
| 4 | Middle English | costen | to cost |
| 5 | Old French | couster | Alternative form of coster; to cost |
| 6 | Medieval Latin | costo | — |
| 7 | Latin | consto | to stand together; to stand still; to remain the... |
| 8 | Latin | com- | allomorph of con- |
| 9 | Latin | con- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing... |
| 10 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 11 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 15 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 16 | Middle Dutch | kitte | a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden... |
via English Ness
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Ness | An Ulster princess and the mother of Conchobar mac Nessa and Findchoem in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. Daughter of Eochaid Sálbuide. Also the mother of Cormac Cond Longas by incest with Conchobar mac Nessa |
| 2 | Middle English | nesse | — |
| 3 | Old English | næs | not, not at all; not; first/third-person singular... |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | nasją | foothill; headland; cape |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | néh₂s | nose |