Where does “uneventfulness” come from?
uneventfulness (English) comes from English uneventful, from English eventful, from English event, from Middle French event, from Latin ēventus, from Latin ēveniō, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō — a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden...
uneventfulness (English): The quality of being uneventful
Definitions
- The quality of being uneventful
Ancestry of “uneventfulness”, step by step
uneventfulness traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English uneventful
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | uneventful | monotonous; lacking significant or noteworthy... |
| 2 | English | eventful | Of or pertaining to high levels of activity;... |
| 3 | English | event | An occurrence; something that happens; A... |
| 4 | Middle French | event | — |
| 5 | Latin | ēventus | event, occurrence, reality |
| 6 | Latin | ēveniō | to happen, occur |
| 7 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 8 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 9 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 10 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 15 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 16 | Middle Dutch | kitte | a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden... |
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 |