Where does “unmake” come from?
Unmake derives from English make, which comes from Latin unus meaning "one," tracing back through Proto-Indo-European óynos and ano- to the root mag-.
unmake (English): To destroy or take apart; to cause to lose its...
Definitions
- To destroy or take apart; to cause to lose its...
Ancestry of “unmake”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle English | unmaken | to unmake, to destroy, to kill |
| 2 | Middle English | un- | — |
| 3 | Old English | un- | negation or absence of: un-, non-; bad; forms... |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | un- | not, un- |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | un- | not, un- |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | n̥- | not, un- |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ne | not |
Words derived from “unmake”