Where does “inexperienced” come from?
Inexperienced comes from English experience with the prefix in- from Latin in-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ne meaning not, combined with Latin ex meaning out.
inexperienced (English): Not experienced; lacking knowledge or experience;...
Definitions
- Not experienced; lacking knowledge or experience;...
Ancestry of “inexperienced”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | experienced | Having experience and skill in a subject;... |
| 2 | English | experience | The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced... |
| 3 | Middle English | experience | — |
| 4 | Latin | experientia | a trial, proof, experiment; experimental... |
| 5 | Latin | experiens | testing, trying, experiencing |
| 6 | Latin | experior | I attempt, I try; I test, I put to the test, I... |
| 7 | Latin | pariō | to bear, to give birth to |
| 8 | Latin | -iō | — |
| 9 | Proto-West Germanic | -jō | Forms agent nouns from verbs |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 12 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |