Where does “unchanged” come from?

Unchanged comes from English, which retains the prefix un- from Latin unus, derived from Proto-Indo-European óynos, ultimately traceable to Proto-Indo-European h₂ent-.

unchanged (English): Not changed or altered; remaining in an original...

Definitions

  1. Not changed or altered; remaining in an original...

Ancestry of “unchanged”, 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 “unchanged”

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