Where does “repunit” come from?

repunit (English) comes from English unit, from English unite, from Middle English uniten, from Latin ūnītus, from Latin ūniō, from Latin -iō, from Proto-West Germanic -jō, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti — he, she.

repunit (English): A repdigit consisting only of one or more occurrences of the digit 1

Definitions

  1. A repdigit consisting only of one or more occurrences of the digit 1

Ancestry of “repunit”, step by step

repunit traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English unit

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishunitOneness, singularity, seen as a component of a...
2EnglishuniteTo bring together as one; To come together as...
3Middle Englishunitento annex; to unite
4Latinūnītusunited
5Latinūniōa unity, union
6Latin-iō
7Proto-West Germanic-jōForms agent nouns from verbs
8Proto-Indo-European-yétiCreates intransitive, often deponent,...
9Proto-Indo-Europeanyé-
10Chichewaiyehe, she

via English repeated

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishrepeatedsimple past tense and past participle of repeat;...
Every word from Chichewa iye