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

  1. Without leaving a trace

Ancestry of “tracelessly”, step by step

tracelessly traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English traceless

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishtracelessThat has no traces; That cannot be traced;...
2EnglishtraceAn act of tracing; An enquiry sent out for a...
3Middle EnglishtraceA trail, track or road; a pathway or route; One's...
4Old Frenchtracetrace (markings showing where one has been)
5Old Frenchtracier
6Latintractiāretrace, score, delineate
7Latintractusdragged, having been dragged; trailed, having...
8Latintraheresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
9LatintrahoI drag, pull; I trail; I extract, withdraw
10Proto-Italictraɣō
11Proto-Indo-Europeantregʰ-to drag, pull?; to run, walk
12Proto-Indo-Europeandʰregʰ-to run

via English ly

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishlyAbbreviation of light-year
2VietnameselyAlternative spelling of li
Every word from Proto-Indo-European dʰregʰ-Every word from Proto-Indo-European tregʰ-Every word from Proto-Italic traɣō