Where does “unharmfulness” come from?
unharmfulness (English) comes from English unharmful, from English harmful, from English harm, from Middle English harm, from Old English hearm, from Proto-West Germanic harm, from Proto-Germanic harmaz, from Proto-Indo-European ḱormo- — suffering, pain.
unharmfulness (English): The quality of not being harmful
Definitions
- The quality of not being harmful
Ancestry of “unharmfulness”, step by step
unharmfulness traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English unharmful
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | unharmful | Not harmful |
| 2 | English | harmful | of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious |
| 3 | English | harm | physical injury; hurt; damage; emotional or... |
| 4 | Middle English | harm | harm, injury, ruination |
| 5 | Old English | hearm | harm |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | harm | painful; pain, harm |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | harmaz | painful; sorrowful; doleful; harmful; malicious;... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱormo- | suffering, pain |
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 |