Where does “undentable” come from?
undentable (English) comes from English dentable, from English dent, from French dent, from Middle French dent, from Old French dent, from Latin dēns, from Italian dente, from Latin dens — to eat.
undentable (English): Not dentable; impossible to dent
Definitions
- Not dentable; impossible to dent
Ancestry of “undentable”, step by step
undentable traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English dentable
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | dentable | Capable of being dented; Admitting slices of... |
| 2 | English | dent | A shallow deformation in the surface of an... |
| 3 | French | dent | tooth; cog |
| 4 | Middle French | dent | tooth |
| 5 | Old French | dent | tooth |
| 6 | Latin | dēns | a tooth |
| 7 | Italian | dente | tooth; cog, prong |
| 8 | Latin | dens | tooth; a spike, prong, or any tooth-like... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | dents | tooth |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃dónts | tooth |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁ed- | to eat |
via English un
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | un | One |