Where does “untelevisable” come from?
untelevisable (English) comes from English televisable, from English televise, from English televisión, from French télévision, from German Television, from Italian televisione, from Spanish televisión, from Spanish tele- — resin.
untelevisable (English): Not televisable; unsuitable for television
Definitions
- Not televisable; unsuitable for television
Ancestry of “untelevisable”, step by step
untelevisable traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English televisable
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | televisable | That can be televised; suitable for television |
| 2 | English | televise | to broadcast, or be broadcast, by television |
| 3 | English | televisión | An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound |
| 4 | French | télévision | television |
| 5 | German | Television | — |
| 6 | Italian | televisione | television |
| 7 | Spanish | televisión | television |
| 8 | Spanish | tele- | tele |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | τῆλε | far off, afar, far away |
| 10 | Latin | commūnicāre | — |
| 11 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 12 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 17 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 18 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 19 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 20 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 21 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
via English un
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | un | One |