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

Definitions

  1. Not elected

Ancestry of “unelected”, 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 “unelected”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ne →Every word from English Un- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European n̥- →