Where does “intronless” come from?

intronless (English) comes from English intron, from English intragenic, from English genic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen — in.

intronless (English): Lacking an intron

Definitions

  1. Lacking an intron

Ancestry of “intronless”, step by step

intronless traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English intron

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishintronA portion of a split gene that is included in...
2EnglishintragenicWithin a gene
3Englishgenicof, relating to, produced by, or being a gene
4English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
5EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
6Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
7Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
8Spanishimagenimage
9Italianimmagineimage; imago
10Latinimāginem
11Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
12Latinīn-un-, non-, not
13Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
14Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
15Proto-Italicenin
16Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

via English less

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishlessTo a smaller extent or degree; comparative form...
2Middle Englishlesfalse; lying; deceptive; falsehood; a lie
3Old Englishlēasfalse, lax; false, void, loose; devoid of, loose...
4Proto-Germanic*laus
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én