Where does “unsweetened” come from?
Unsweetened derives from English sweeten, English sweet, and Proto-Indo-European sweyd-, originally meaning pleasant or agreeable to the taste.
unsweetened (English): Not sweetened; simple past tense and past...
Definitions
- Not sweetened; simple past tense and past...
Ancestry of “unsweetened”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | sweetened | simple past tense and past participle of sweeten;... |
| 2 | English | sweeten | To make sweet to the taste; To make pleasant or... |
| 3 | English | sweet | Having a pleasant taste, especially one relating... |
| 4 | Middle English | swete | sweet, pleasant-tasting; sweet in smell;... |
| 5 | Old English | swēte | sweet |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | swōtī | sweet |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | swōtuz | sweet |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | swéh₂dus | sweet |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | sweh₂d- | sweet |