Where does “unhealable” come from?
unhealable (English) comes from English healable, from English heal, from English Hale, from Middle English hālen, from Old French haler, from Dutch halen, from Middle Dutch halen, from Old Dutch halōn — to warm up, to be hot; to warm up, be hot.
unhealable (English): That cannot be healed
Definitions
- That cannot be healed
Ancestry of “unhealable”, step by step
unhealable traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English healable
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | healable | Receptive to treatment or cure |
| 2 | English | heal | To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to... |
| 3 | English | Hale | A place name |
| 4 | Middle English | hālen | — |
| 5 | Old French | haler | to pull, haul; to haul, pull |
| 6 | Dutch | halen | to fetch, to get |
| 7 | Middle Dutch | halen | to drag, fetch, haul; to draw, fetch, haul |
| 8 | Old Dutch | halōn | — |
| 9 | Proto-West Germanic | halōn | to fetch, to get, to haul |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | halōną | to call, appoint, summon; to fetch, get |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱelh₁- | to warm up, to be hot; to warm up, be hot |
via English un
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | un | One |