Where does “unsupervised” come from?

Unsupervised derives from English supervise, prefixed with un-, tracing through Latin unus and Proto-Indo-European óynos and ano-, ultimately connected to Proto-Indo-European h₂ent- meaning "being" or "entity."

unsupervised (English): Not supervised; not being constantly observed

Definitions

  1. Not supervised; not being constantly observed

Ancestry of “unsupervised”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishUn-not
2Middle Englishun-—
3Old Englishun-negation or absence of: un-, non-; bad; forms...
4Proto-West Germanicun-not, un-
5Proto-Germanicun-not, un-
6Proto-Indo-Europeann̥-not, un-
7Proto-Indo-Europeannenot

Words derived from “unsupervised”

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