Where does “unacquirable” come from?
unacquirable (English) comes from English acquirable, from English acquire, from French acquérir, from Middle French acquerir, from Old French aquerre, from Latin acquīrō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn- — in.
unacquirable (English): That cannot be acquired
Ancestry of “unacquirable”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | acquirable | Capable of being acquired |
| 2 | English | acquire | To get; To gain, usually by one's own exertions;... |
| 3 | French | acquérir | to acquire, to obtain; to purchase; to gain, to... |
| 4 | Middle French | acquerir | to acquire |
| 5 | Old French | aquerre | to acquire |
| 6 | Latin | acquīrō | — |
| 7 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 8 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 9 | Latin | în | — |
| 10 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |