Where does “unsnaggle” come from?

unsnaggle (English) comes from English snaggle, from English Le, from French lé, from French moine, from Middle French moine, from Old French monie, from Latin monicus — sporadically attested in early Christian inscriptions from Gaul.

unsnaggle (English): To disentangle

Definitions

  1. To disentangle

Ancestry of “unsnaggle”, step by step

unsnaggle traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English snaggle

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsnaggleA tangled, knotted, or intertwined mass; To...
2EnglishLethe
3Frenchbreadth, width; strip, length
4Frenchmoinemonk
5Middle Frenchmoinemonk
6Old Frenchmoniemonk
7Latinmonicussporadically attested in early Christian inscriptions from Gaul

via English un

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishunOne
Every word from Latin monicus