Where does “unsinfulness” come from?
unsinfulness (English) comes from English unsinful, from English sinful, from Middle English synful, from Old English synful, from Old English synn, from Proto-West Germanic sunnju, from Proto-Germanic sunjō, from Proto-Indo-European h₁s-ónt-ih₂.
unsinfulness (English): Absence of sin
Ancestry of “unsinfulness”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | unsinful | Not sinful |
| 2 | English | sinful | constituting a sin; being morally or religiously... |
| 3 | Middle English | synful | — |
| 4 | Old English | synful | sinful; a sinner |
| 5 | Old English | synn | sin |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | sunnju | responsibility; care; concern; worry; anxiety |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | sunjō | truth, sooth; denial, protest |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁s-ónt-ih₂ | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁sónts | active participle of *h₁ésti; being, existence;... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁ēs- | — |