Where does “spruceless” come from?

spruceless (English) comes from English Spruce, from Middle English Spruce, from Middle English Pruce, from Latin Prussia, from Middle High German Prūzin.

spruceless (English): Without a spruce or spruces

Definitions

  1. Without a spruce or spruces

Ancestry of “spruceless”, step by step

spruceless traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English Spruce

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishSprucePrussia
2Middle EnglishSpruce—
3Middle EnglishPrucePrussia
4LatinPrussia—
5Middle High GermanPrūzin—

via English less

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishlessTo a smaller extent or degree; comparative form...
2Middle Englishlesfalse; lying; deceptive; falsehood; a lie
3Old Englishlēasfalse, lax; false, void, loose; devoid of, loose...
4Proto-Germanic*laus—
Every word from Middle High German Prūzin →Every word from Latin Prussia →Every word from Middle English Pruce →