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Where does “exhaustless” come from?

Exhaustless comes from English exhaust plus the suffix -less, with exhaust deriving from Latin exhaustus, the past participle of exhaurīre meaning to draw out completely.

exhaustless (English): Unable to be exhausted; having an endless supply;...

Definitions

  1. Unable to be exhausted; having an endless supply;...

Ancestry of “exhaustless”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-lessLacking ; without . Added usually to a noun to...
2Middle English-lesLacking ; without
3Turkish-lewith, shortened form of ile; by, shortened form...
4Turkishilewith; and
5Ottoman Turkishایله—
6Old Anatolian Turkishاِیلَه—
7Proto-Turkicbilewith, together, also

Words derived from “exhaustless”

  • exhaustlessness
  • exhaustlessly
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