Where does “unflyable” come from?
unflyable (English) comes from English flyable, from English fly, from Middle English flien, from Old English flēogan, from Old English -ende, from Proto-West Germanic *-andī, from Proto-Germanic -andz, from Proto-Indo-European -ónts — sound, voice.
unflyable (English): Not flyable; impossible to fly
Definitions
- Not flyable; impossible to fly
Ancestry of “unflyable”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | flyable | Able to be flown; airworthy; Passable by flight |
| 2 | English | fly | Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by... |
| 3 | Middle English | flien | To fly; to travel in the air; To move in the sky;... |
| 4 | Old English | flēogan | to fly |
| 5 | Old English | -ende | equivalent of English -ing; suffix for present... |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | *-andī | — |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | -andz | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -ónts | Derives nouns denoting body parts |
| 9 | Hungarian | önt | to pour; to cast; accusative singular of ön |
| 10 | Hungarian | ön | you |
| 11 | Hungarian | ön- | self- |
| 12 | Turkish | ön | front |
| 13 | Ottoman Turkish | اوك | — |
| 14 | Proto-Turkic | ǖn | sound, voice |