Where does “tirelessly” come from?
Tirelessly comes from English tireless, formed with the Old English suffix -līċ (meaning resembling or having the quality of) combined with tire, which derives from Old English -lēas (meaning without or lacking) and Proto-Germanic galīkaz, ultimately tracing to Proto-Indo-European roots.
tirelessly (English): In a tireless manner; without tiring, flagging,...
Definitions
- In a tireless manner; without tiring, flagging,...
Ancestry of “tirelessly”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | tireless | Indefatigable, untiring and not yielding to... |
| 2 | English | -less | (something); without (something). Added usually to a noun to form an adjective signifying a lack of that noun |
| 3 | Middle English | -les | Lacking (something); without (something) |
| 4 | Turkish | -le | with, shortened form of ile; by, shortened form... |
| 5 | Turkish | ile | with; and |
| 6 | Ottoman Turkish | ایله | by |
| 7 | Old Anatolian Turkish | اِیلَه | — |
| 8 | Proto-Turkic | bile | with, together, also |