Where does “unhumanly” come from?
unhumanly (English) comes from English humanly, from English Human, from Middle English humayne, from Middle French humain, from Old French humain, from Latin hūmānus, from Latin homō, from Old Latin hemō.
unhumanly (English): In an unhuman manner
Definitions
- In an unhuman manner
Ancestry of “unhumanly”, step by step
unhumanly traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English humanly
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | humanly | In a human manner |
| 2 | English | Human | The language supposedly spoken by humans |
| 3 | Middle English | humayne | human |
| 4 | Middle French | humain | human; human being; human |
| 5 | Old French | humain | — |
| 6 | Latin | hūmānus | human (of man, people) |
| 7 | Latin | homō | human, person, man |
| 8 | Old Latin | hemō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | hemō | man |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰmṓ | earthling |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰéǵʰōm | earth |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -ōm | emphatic suffix or postpositive particle |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -mi | — |
via English unhuman
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | unhuman | Not resembling or having the qualities of a human... |
| 2 | English | Un- | not |
| 3 | Middle English | un- | — |
| 4 | Old English | un- | negation or absence of: un-, non-; bad; forms... |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | un- | not, un- |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | un- | not, un- |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | n̥- | not, un- |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ne | not |