Where does “irretraceable” come from?
irretraceable (English) comes from English retraceable, from English retrace, from French retracer, from French ré-, from Latin rĕ-, from Latin prōdūcō, from Latin prō-, from Proto-Italic *pro- — passed , crossed.
irretraceable (English): Not retraceable; unable to be retraced
Definitions
- Not retraceable; unable to be retraced
Ancestry of “irretraceable”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | retraceable | Capable of being retraced |
| 2 | English | retrace | To trace again; To go back over something,... |
| 3 | French | retracer | to recount, to tell; to redraw, to draw again |
| 4 | French | ré- | re- |
| 5 | Latin | rĕ- | — |
| 6 | Latin | prōdūcō | — |
| 7 | Latin | prō- | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | *pro- | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pro- | toward, forward |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | por- | to give birth; forward, through; going, passage |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |