Where does “unharmed” come from?

Unharmed derives from English harm with the prefix un-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ne and h₂ent-, which expressed negation and being or existence respectively.

unharmed (English): which has not suffered harm; which has not been...

Definitions

  1. which has not suffered harm; which has not been...

Ancestry of “unharmed”, 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
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ne →Every word from English Un- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European n̥- →