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Where does “unresolvedness” come from?

unresolvedness (English) comes from English unresolved, from English Un-, from Middle English un-, from Old English un-, from Proto-West Germanic un-, from Proto-Germanic un-, from Proto-Indo-European n̥-, from Proto-Indo-European ne — not.

unresolvedness (English): The state or quality of being unresolved

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being unresolved

Ancestry of “unresolvedness”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishunresolvedsimple past tense and past participle of...
2EnglishUn-—
3Middle Englishun-—
4Old Englishun-negation or absence of: un-, non-; bad; forms...
5Proto-West Germanicun-not, un-
6Proto-Germanicun-not, un-
7Proto-Indo-Europeann̥-not, un-
8Proto-Indo-Europeannenot
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