Where does “unkillableness” come from?
unkillableness (English) comes from English unkillable, from English killable, from English kill, from Middle English killen, from Old English cwellan, from Proto-West Germanic kwalljan, from Proto-Germanic kwaljaną, from Proto-Germanic -janą — he, she.
unkillableness (English): The state or condition of being unkillable
Definitions
- The state or condition of being unkillable
Ancestry of “unkillableness”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | unkillable | Not killable; unable to be killed |
| 2 | English | killable | Able to be killed; Fit to be killed, especially... |
| 3 | English | kill | To put to death; to extinguish the life of; To... |
| 4 | Middle English | killen | — |
| 5 | Old English | cwellan | to kill; to slay |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | kwalljan | to make suffer, to hurt |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | kwaljaną | to make suffer, to hurt |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 11 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |