Where does “unaccelerating” come from?
unaccelerating (English) comes from English accelerating, from English accelerate, from English -ant, from Middle English -ant, from Old English -ende, from Proto-West Germanic *-andī, from Proto-Germanic -andz, from Proto-Indo-European -ónts — sound, voice.
unaccelerating (English): Not accelerating
Definitions
- Not accelerating
Ancestry of “unaccelerating”, step by step
unaccelerating traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English accelerating
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | accelerating | present participle of accelerate; An act of... |
| 2 | English | accelerate | To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion... |
| 3 | English | -ant | The agent noun derived from verb; An adjective... |
| 4 | Middle English | -ant | — |
| 5 | Old English | -ende | equivalent of English -ing; suffix for present... |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | *-andī | — |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | -andz | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -ónts | Derives nouns denoting body parts |
| 9 | Hungarian | önt | to pour; to cast; accusative singular of ön |
| 10 | Hungarian | ön | you |
| 11 | Hungarian | ön- | self- |
| 12 | Turkish | ön | front |
| 13 | Ottoman Turkish | اوك | voice (of human or animal); sound |
| 14 | Proto-Turkic | ǖn | sound, voice |
via English unaccelerate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | unaccelerate | To undo or reverse the acceleration of |
| 2 | English | Un- | not |
| 3 | English | still | Not moving; calm; Not effervescing; not... |
| 4 | Old English | stillan | become calm, abate, subside; calm, pacify,... |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | stillijan | to make still, quiet |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | -jan | Creates denominative verbs from nouns; Creates... |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 10 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |