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Where does “immovable” come from?

immovable (English) comes from Middle English immevable, from Middle English in-, from Old English in-, from Old English in, from Proto-West Germanic *in, from Proto-Germanic in, from Proto-Indo-European én — in.

immovable (English): incapable of being physically moved; fixed;...

Definitions

  1. incapable of being physically moved; fixed;...

Ancestry of “immovable”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishimmevable—
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 “immovable”

  • immoveable
  • immovably
  • immoveably
  • immovableness
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