Where does “immeasurable” come from?

Immeasurable derives from Middle English in- combined with measurable, from Latin in- (not) and Latin in (in), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ne (not), oyd- (to see), en (in), and en (in).

immeasurable (English): impossible to measure; vast; anything that cannot...

Definitions

  1. impossible to measure; vast; anything that cannot...

Ancestry of “immeasurable”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishin-in, into, towards, within; in, into; Used with...
2Middle Englishin-—
3Old Englishin-in, into; on, upon; internal, positioned on the...
4Old Englishinin; Alternative form of inn
5Proto-West Germanic*in—
6Proto-Germanicinin; into
7Proto-Indo-Europeanénin

Words derived from “immeasurable”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European én →Every word from Proto-Germanic in →Every word from Proto-West Germanic *in →
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