Where does “unascendable” come from?

unascendable (English) comes from English ascendable, from English ascend, from Middle English ascenden, from Old French ascendre, from Latin ascendo, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în — in.

unascendable (English): That cannot be ascended

Definitions

  1. That cannot be ascended

Ancestry of “unascendable”, step by step

unascendable traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English ascendable

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishascendableCapable of being ascended
2EnglishascendTo move upward, to fly, to soar; To slope in an...
3Middle Englishascenden
4Old Frenchascendre
5LatinascendoI climb up, I go up, I move upwards; I rise,...
6Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
7Latinīn-un-, non-, not
8Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
9Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
10Proto-Italicenin
11Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

via English un

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