Where does “healthlessness” come from?

healthlessness (English) comes from English healthless, from English health, from Middle English helþe, from Old English hǣlþ, from Proto-Germanic hailiþō, from Proto-Germanic hailaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos — healthy.

healthlessness (English): The state or condition of being healthless

Definitions

  1. The state or condition of being healthless

Ancestry of “healthlessness”, step by step

healthlessness traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English healthless

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishhealthlessUnhealthy
2EnglishhealthThe state of being free from physical or...
3Middle Englishhelþesoundness; health; recovery
4Old Englishhǣlþ
5Proto-Germanichailiþōwholeness, health
6Proto-Germanichailazwhole, unbroken, intact; entire, complete; hale,...
7Proto-Indo-European*kéh₂iloshealthy

via English Ness

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishNessAn 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
2Middle Englishnesse
3Old Englishnæsnot, not at all; not; first/third-person singular...
4Proto-Germanicnasjąfoothill; headland; cape
5Proto-Indo-Europeannéh₂snose
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilosEvery word from Proto-Germanic hailazEvery word from Proto-Germanic hailiþō