Where does “tracelessly” come from?
tracelessly (English) comes from English traceless, from English trace, from Middle English trace, from Old French trace, from Old French tracier, from Latin tractiāre, from Latin tractus, from Latin trahere — to run.
tracelessly (English): Without leaving a trace
Definitions
- Without leaving a trace
Ancestry of “tracelessly”, step by step
tracelessly traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English traceless
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | traceless | That has no traces; That cannot be traced;... |
| 2 | English | trace | An act of tracing; An enquiry sent out for a... |
| 3 | Middle English | trace | A trail, track or road; a pathway or route; One's... |
| 4 | Old French | trace | trace (markings showing where one has been) |
| 5 | Old French | tracier | — |
| 6 | Latin | tractiāre | trace, score, delineate |
| 7 | Latin | tractus | dragged, having been dragged; trailed, having... |
| 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 |