Where does “unclassifiableness” come from?
unclassifiableness (English) comes from English unclassifiable, from English classifiable, from English classify, from French classifier, from French classe, from Italian classe, from Spanish clase, from Portuguese classe — to call, cry, summon.
unclassifiableness (English): The quality of being unclassifiable
Definitions
- The quality of being unclassifiable
Ancestry of “unclassifiableness”, step by step
unclassifiableness traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English unclassifiable
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | unclassifiable | Incapable of being classified |
| 2 | English | classifiable | Able to be classified |
| 3 | English | classify | to identify by or divide into classes; to... |
| 4 | French | classifier | to classify |
| 5 | French | classe | class, type, group; "Une classe de conscrits"... |
| 6 | Italian | classe | class; classroom; style |
| 7 | Spanish | clase | lecture; class; kind, sort, type |
| 8 | Portuguese | classe | class, kind; class; elegance; class |
| 9 | German | klasse | great, awesome |
| 10 | Russian | класс | class |
| 11 | Latin | classis | any one of the five divisions into which Servius... |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | klāssis | — |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | kelh₁- | to call, cry, summon |
via English Ness
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Ness | An Ulster princess and the mother of Conchobar mac Nessa and Findchoem in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. Daughter of Eochaid Sálbuide. Also the mother of Cormac Cond Longas by incest with Conchobar mac Nessa |
| 2 | Middle English | nesse | — |
| 3 | Old English | næs | not, not at all; not; first/third-person singular... |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | nasją | foothill; headland; cape |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | néh₂s | nose |