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Where does “unsufficience” come from?

unsufficience (English) comes from English sufficience, from Old French sufficience, from Late Latin sufficientia, from Latin sufficiens, from Latin sufficio, from Latin facio, from Proto-Italic fakjō, from Proto-Italic *θakjō — to do, put, place.

unsufficience (English): Obsolete form of insufficiency

Definitions

  1. Obsolete form of insufficiency

Ancestry of “unsufficience”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsufficienceThe condition or quality of being sufficient;...
2Old Frenchsufficience—
3Late Latinsufficientiasufficience, sufficiency
4Latinsufficiensimbuing etc
5LatinsufficioI supply, provide, afford, give, furnish, yield;...
6LatinfacioI do; I make, construct, fashion, frame, build,...
7Proto-Italicfakjōto make
8Proto-Italic*θakjō—
9Proto-Indo-European*dʰh₁k-yé-ti—
10Proto-Indo-Europeandʰeh₁-to do, put, place
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