Where does “uncunningly” come from?
uncunningly (English) comes from English uncunning, from English cunning, from Middle English cunning, from Middle English cunninde, from Old English cunnende, from Old English cunnan, from Proto-West Germanic kunnan, from Proto-Germanic kunnaną — to know.
uncunningly (English): ignorantly
Definitions
- ignorantly
Ancestry of “uncunningly”, step by step
uncunningly traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English uncunning
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | uncunning | Not cunning or crafty; Ignorant; lacking... |
| 2 | English | cunning | Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour;... |
| 3 | Middle English | cunning | — |
| 4 | Middle English | cunninde | — |
| 5 | Old English | cunnende | — |
| 6 | Old English | cunnan | to know, to be familiar with; can, to know how |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | kunnan | to recognise; to know how, to be able |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | kunnaną | to know, to be familiar with, to recognise; to... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵneh₃- | to know |