Where does “unmendableness” come from?
unmendableness (English) comes from English unmendable, from English mendable, from English mend, from Middle English menden, from Middle English amenden, from Old French amender, from Latin ēmendō, from Latin ex.
unmendableness (English): The quality of being unmendable
Definitions
- The quality of being unmendable
Ancestry of “unmendableness”, step by step
unmendableness traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English unmendable
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | unmendable | That cannot be mended |
| 2 | English | mendable | Able to be mended |
| 3 | English | mend | A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired... |
| 4 | Middle English | menden | cure |
| 5 | Middle English | amenden | to amend |
| 6 | Old French | amender | to correct; to set right; to fix; to repair; to... |
| 7 | Latin | ēmendō | to free from faults, correct, improve, remedy, amend, revise, cure |
| 8 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 9 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 10 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 11 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 16 | Middle English | kyt | — |
via English Ness
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Ness | An Ulster princess and the mother of Conchobar mac Nessa and Findchoem in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. Daughter of Eochaid Sálbuide. Also the mother of Cormac Cond Longas by incest with Conchobar mac Nessa |
| 2 | Middle English | nesse | — |
| 3 | Old English | næs | not, not at all; not; first/third-person singular... |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | nasją | foothill; headland; cape |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | néh₂s | nose |