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Where does “unhurried” come from?

Unhurried derives from English hurried with the prefix un-, ultimately tracing through Latin unus and Proto-Indo-European óynos, ano-, ne, and h₂ent-.

unhurried (English): Not hurried; not rushed

Definitions

  1. Not hurried; not rushed

Ancestry of “unhurried”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishUn-—
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

Words derived from “unhurried”

  • unhurriedly
  • unhurriedness
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