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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.

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

Definitions

  1. The state or condition of being healthless

Ancestry of “healthlessness”, step by step

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*kéh₂ilos—
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