Where does “unstreamlined” come from?
unstreamlined (English) comes from English streamlined, from English streamline, from English stream, from Middle English streem, from Middle English strem, from Old English strēam, from Proto-West Germanic straum, from Proto-Germanic straumaz — to flow; to guard; to bind, to tie together.
unstreamlined (English): Not streamlined; simple past tense and past...
Definitions
- Not streamlined; simple past tense and past...
Ancestry of “unstreamlined”, step by step
unstreamlined traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English streamlined
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | streamlined | Designed to offer little resistance to the flow... |
| 2 | English | streamline | A line that is tangent to the velocity of flow of... |
| 3 | English | stream | A small river; a large creek; a body of moving... |
| 4 | Middle English | streem | Alternative form of strem |
| 5 | Middle English | strem | A waterbody; a region of the world containing... |
| 6 | Old English | strēam | current; stream |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | straum | stream |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | straumaz | stream, current, river |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | srowmos | river |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | srew- | to flow, stream |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ser- | to flow; to guard; to bind, to tie together |
via English unstreamline
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | unstreamline | To make unstreamlined |
| 2 | English | Un- | not |
| 3 | English | still | Not moving; calm; Not effervescing; not... |
| 4 | Old English | stillan | become calm, abate, subside; calm, pacify,... |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | stillijan | to make still, quiet |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | -jan | Creates denominative verbs from nouns; Creates... |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 10 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |