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Where does “situatedness” come from?

Situatedness derives from English situated plus the suffix -ness, from Middle English -nesse, from Old English -nes, from Proto-Germanic -inassuz and -inōną, denoting a state or condition.

situatedness (English): embeddedness in a culture

Definitions

  1. embeddedness in a culture

Ancestry of “situatedness”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishNess—
2Middle Englishnesse—
3Old Englishnæsnot, not at all; not; first/third-person singular...
4Proto-Germanicnasjąfoothill; headland; cape
5Proto-Indo-Europeannéh₂snose
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