Where does “unaccomplished” come from?
I need to work with the chain provided, but I notice the chain given appears to trace "accomplish" rather than "unaccomplished." The chain shows: English accomplished | English accomplish | Proto-Indo-European óynos | Proto-Indo-European óynos | Proto-Indo-European ano- | Proto-Indo-European ano- | Latin ad- | Latin ad However, this chain seems incomplete or problematic for deriving "unaccomplished" - it doesn't clearly show the full etymological path, and "unaccomplished" would involve the prefix "un-" which isn't accounted for here. Given the constraints and the chain as stated, here's my best attempt: Unaccomplished derives from English accomplish, ultimately from Latin ad- and Proto-Indo-European ano-, with the privative prefix un- indicating the negation of completion or finished state. However, I must note that this chain
unaccomplished (English): Not accomplished; Not having occurred or been...
Definitions
- Not accomplished; Not having occurred or been...
Ancestry of “unaccomplished”, step by step
unaccomplished traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English accomplished
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | accomplished | Completed; effected; established; Having many... |
| 2 | English | accomplish | To finish successfully; To complete, as time or... |
| 3 | Middle English | accomplisshen | — |
| 4 | Old French | acomplir | to come to an end |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | *(ac)complīre | — |
| 6 | Latin | compleō | to fill up, fill full, fill out; make up, complete |
| 7 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 8 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 9 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
via English un
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | un | One |