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

Definitions

  1. That cannot be acquired

Ancestry of “unacquirable”, step by step

unacquirable traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English acquirable

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishacquirableCapable of being acquired
2EnglishacquireTo get; To gain, usually by one's own exertions;...
3Frenchacquérirto acquire, to obtain; to purchase; to gain, to...
4Middle Frenchacquerirto acquire
5Old Frenchaquerreto acquire
6Latinacquīrōto acquire or obtain
7Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
8Latinīn-un-, non-, not
9Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
10Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
11Proto-Italicenin
12Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

via English un

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishunOne
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁énEvery word from Latin īn-Every word from Latin ad-