Where does “ginless” come from?

ginless (English) comes from English gin, from Old French engin, from Latin ingenium, from Latin gignere, from Latin genere, from Latin genus, from Proto-Italic genos, from Proto-Indo-European ǵénh₁os — to produce, to beget, to give birth.

ginless (English): without gin

Definitions

  1. without gin

Ancestry of “ginless”, step by step

ginless traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English gin

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishginA colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by...
2Old Frenchenginintelligence; ruse; trickery; deception;...
3Latiningeniuminnate or natural quality, natural character;...
4Latingigneresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
5Latingenereablative singular of genus; to beget, produce
6Latingenusbirth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,...
7Proto-Italicgenoslineage, origin
8Proto-Indo-Europeanǵénh₁osrace, lineage
9Proto-Indo-Europeanǵenh₁-to produce, to beget, to give birth

via English less

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishlessTo a smaller extent or degree; comparative form...
2Middle Englishlesfalse; lying; deceptive; falsehood; a lie
3Old Englishlēasfalse, lax; false, void, loose; devoid of, loose...
4Proto-Germanic*laus
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵenh₁-