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Where does “indecipherability” come from?

indecipherability (English) comes from English indecipherable, from English in-, 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.

indecipherability (English): Quality of being indecipherable

Definitions

  1. Quality of being indecipherable

Ancestry of “indecipherability”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishindecipherableNot decipherable; impossible to decode, read,...
2Englishin-in, into, towards, within; in, into; Used with...
3Middle Englishin-—
4Old Englishin-in, into; on, upon; internal, positioned on the...
5Old Englishinin; Alternative form of inn
6Proto-West Germanic*in—
7Proto-Germanicinin; into
8Proto-Indo-Europeanénin
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