Where does “unelected” come from?
Unelected comes from English elect plus the prefix un-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European h₂ent- meaning "being" or "entity," which developed through various morphological stages including ano- and ne to eventually yield Latin unus and Greek óynos meaning "one."
unelected (English): Not elected
Ancestry of “unelected”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | Un- | — |
| 2 | Middle English | un- | — |
| 3 | Old English | un- | negation or absence of: un-, non-; bad; forms... |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | un- | not, un- |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | un- | not, un- |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | n̥- | not, un- |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ne | not |