Where does “uninvited” come from?

Uninvited derives from English invite, from Middle French inviter, from Proto-Indo-European óynos and ano-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ne, originally meaning "not."

uninvited (English): Not invited; simple past tense and past...

Definitions

  1. Not invited; simple past tense and past...

Ancestry of “uninvited”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishUn-not
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 “uninvited”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ne →Every word from English Un- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European n̥- →