Where does “unretrainable” come from?
unretrainable (English) comes from English retrainable, from English retrain, from English train, from Middle English train, from Old French train, from Old French traïner, from Vulgar Latin traginare, from Latin tragēre — to run.
unretrainable (English): Not capable of being retrained
Definitions
- Not capable of being retrained
Ancestry of “unretrainable”, step by step
unretrainable traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English retrainable
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | retrainable | Capable of being retrained |
| 2 | English | retrain | To train again; especially, to train or study in... |
| 3 | English | train | Elongated portion; Connected sequence of people... |
| 4 | Middle English | train | — |
| 5 | Old French | train | a delay, a drawing out |
| 6 | Old French | traïner | Alternative form of trainer; to pull out, to draw |
| 7 | Vulgar Latin | traginare | present active infinitive of *traginō |
| 8 | Latin | tragēre | — |
| 9 | Latin | trahere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 10 | Latin | traho | I drag, pull; I trail; I extract, withdraw |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | traɣō | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | tregʰ- | to drag, pull?; to run, walk |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰregʰ- | to run |
via English un
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | un | One |