Where does “unrescuable” come from?
unrescuable (English) comes from English rescuable, from English rescue, from Middle English rescouen, from Old French rescoure, from Latin excutere, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis — whale, sea monster; abyss.
unrescuable (English): Not rescuable
Ancestry of “unrescuable”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | rescuable | That can be rescued or recovered |
| 2 | English | rescue | To save from any violence, danger or evil; To... |
| 3 | Middle English | rescouen | — |
| 4 | Old French | rescoure | — |
| 5 | Latin | excutere | present active infinitive of excutiō;... |
| 6 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 7 | Latin | commūnicō | — |
| 8 | Latin | commūnis | — |
| 9 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 16 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 17 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |