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Where does “unbirthing” come from?

unbirthing (English) comes from English birthing, from English -ing, from Old English -ing, from Old English -tūn, from Old English tūn, from Proto-West Germanic tūn, from Proto-Germanic tūną, from Gaulish dunum — smoke; mist, haze.

unbirthing (English): Crawling back into a vagina and reentering the...

Definitions

  1. Crawling back into a vagina and reentering the...

Ancestry of “unbirthing”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishbirthingThe act of giving birth; Anything added to raise...
2English-ingUsed to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns,...
3Old English-ingForming nouns from verbs, indicating action,...
4Old English-tūn—
5Old Englishtūnenclosure, yard; place; dwelling
6Proto-West Germanictūnfence
7Proto-Germanictūnąfence; enclosure
8Gaulishdunumfort; hill, hillfort
9Proto-Celticdūnomstronghold, rampart
10Proto-Indo-Europeandʰewh₂-smoke; mist, haze
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