Where does “unbreakable” come from?

Unbreakable derives from English break combined with Latin unus and the suffix -abilis, tracing back through Proto-Indo-European óynos, ano-, bʰer-, and h₂ent-.

unbreakable (English): difficult to break and therefore able to...

Definitions

  1. difficult to break and therefore able to...

Ancestry of “unbreakable”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishUn-not
2Middle Englishun-
3Old Englishun-negation or absence of: un-, non-; bad; forms...
4Proto-West Germanicun-not, un-
5Proto-Germanicun-not, un-
6Proto-Indo-Europeann̥-not, un-
7Proto-Indo-Europeannenot

Words derived from “unbreakable

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ne