Where does “insufficiency” come from?

Insufficiency comes from Middle English in- (not) + sufficiency, with the prefix in- from Latin in- (not), derived from Latin in (in), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ne (not) and oyd- (to go).

insufficiency (English): The lack of sufficiency; a shortage or inadequacy

Definitions

  1. The lack of sufficiency; a shortage or inadequacy

Ancestry of “insufficiency”, 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 “insufficiency”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European én →