Where does “unsummable” come from?
unsummable (English) comes from English summable, from English sum, from Khmer ស, from Chinese 蘇, from English Sue, from Middle English seuen, from Anglo-Norman suer, from Old French sivre — to follow; to see; to say.
unsummable (English): Not summable
Definitions
- Not summable
Ancestry of “unsummable”, step by step
unsummable traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English summable
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | summable | Able to be summed (able to be added); that is, able to be summed up (able to be added up); thus |
| 2 | English | sum | A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation;... |
| 3 | Khmer | ស | white |
| 4 | Chinese | 蘇 | — |
| 5 | English | Sue | A Mary Sue |
| 6 | Middle English | seuen | — |
| 7 | Anglo-Norman | suer | nominative singular of seror; to dry |
| 8 | Old French | sivre | to follow |
| 9 | Vulgar Latin | sequere | to follow; second-person singular future active... |
| 10 | Latin | sequor | I follow, come or go after |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | sekʷōr | follow, come/go after |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | sékʷetor | to be following |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | sekʷ- | to follow; to see; to say |
via English un
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | un | One |