Where does “nontrainable” come from?
nontrainable (English) comes from English trainable, from English train, from Middle English train, from Old French train, from Old French traïner, from Vulgar Latin traginare, from Latin tragēre, from Latin trahere — to run.
nontrainable (English): untrainable
Definitions
- untrainable
Ancestry of “nontrainable”, step by step
nontrainable traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English trainable
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | trainable | Capable of being trained, teachable, educatable;... |
| 2 | English | train | Elongated portion; Connected sequence of people... |
| 3 | Middle English | train | — |
| 4 | Old French | train | a delay, a drawing out |
| 5 | Old French | traïner | Alternative form of trainer; to pull out, to draw |
| 6 | Vulgar Latin | traginare | present active infinitive of *traginō |
| 7 | Latin | tragēre | — |
| 8 | Latin | trahere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 9 | Latin | traho | I drag, pull; I trail; I extract, withdraw |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | traɣō | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | tregʰ- | to drag, pull?; to run, walk |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰregʰ- | to run |