Where does “uncankered” come from?
uncankered (English) comes from English cankered, from Middle English cankered, from Middle English cankren, from Middle English canker, from Old English cancer, from Latin cancer, from Proto-Italic kankros, from Proto-Italic karkros — to cut, cut off, sever.
uncankered (English): Not cankered
Definitions
- Not cankered
Ancestry of “uncankered”, step by step
uncankered traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English cankered
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | cankered | Infected with a canker or having a cankerous... |
| 2 | Middle English | cankered | — |
| 3 | Middle English | cankren | to canker |
| 4 | Middle English | canker | — |
| 5 | Old English | cancer | cancer; crab |
| 6 | Latin | cancer | a crab; a tumor, cancer; a lattice, grid, or... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | kankros | crab |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | karkros | enclosure, barrier |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥-kr̥- | circular |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)ker- | to cut off; to turn, bend |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | sek- | to cut, cut off, sever |
via English un
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | un | One |