Where does “unindentured” come from?
unindentured (English) comes from English indentured, from English indenture, from French endenture, from Old French endenteure, from Old French endenter, from Latin dēns, from Italian dente, from Latin dens — to eat.
unindentured (English): Not indentured
Ancestry of “unindentured”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | indentured | simple past tense and past participle of... |
| 2 | English | indenture | A contract which binds a person to work for... |
| 3 | French | endenture | — |
| 4 | Old French | endenteure | — |
| 5 | Old French | endenter | to provide with teeth |
| 6 | Latin | dēns | — |
| 7 | Italian | dente | tooth; cog, prong |
| 8 | Latin | dens | tooth; a spike, prong, or any tooth-like... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | dents | tooth |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃dónts | tooth |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁ed- | to eat |