Where does “irredeemableness” come from?
irredeemableness (English) comes from English irredeemable, from English redeemable, from English redeem, from Middle English redemen, from Old French redimer, from Latin redimo, from Latin red-, from Latin re- — to burn; to cover, heed, notice; squirrel.
irredeemableness (English): The quality of being irredeemable
Definitions
- The quality of being irredeemable
Ancestry of “irredeemableness”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | irredeemable | Not redeemable; not able to be restored,... |
| 2 | English | redeemable | Capable of being redeemed; able to be restored or... |
| 3 | English | redeem | To recover ownership of something by buying it... |
| 4 | Middle English | redemen | To redeem or liberate; To pay compensation to... |
| 5 | Old French | redimer | — |
| 6 | Latin | redimo | I buy back, repurchase, redeem; I atone for; I... |
| 7 | Latin | red- | Primarily ante-vocalic or poetic variant of re- |
| 8 | Latin | re- | back, backwards; again; prefix added to various... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | wret- | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | wert- | to turn, to rotate |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | wer- | to burn; to cover, heed, notice; squirrel |