Where does “untravellable” come from?
untravellable (English) comes from English travellable, from English travel, from Middle English travelen, from Middle Scots travailen, from Old French travailler, from Vulgar Latin tripaliare, from Latin tripalium, from Latin tripālis — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
untravellable (English): Unsuitable for or hostile to travel; incapable of...
Definitions
- Unsuitable for or hostile to travel; incapable of...
Ancestry of “untravellable”, step by step
untravellable traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English travellable
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | travellable | Able to be travelled |
| 2 | English | travel | To be on a journey, often for pleasure or... |
| 3 | Middle English | travelen | to make a laborious journey, travel |
| 4 | Middle Scots | travailen | to toil, work, travel |
| 5 | Old French | travailler | Alternative form of traveillier; to suffer; to... |
| 6 | Vulgar Latin | tripaliare | to work; present active infinitive of *tripaliō |
| 7 | Latin | tripalium | torture instrument; a torture instrument |
| 8 | Latin | tripālis | that has, or is prop up by, three stake or pale |
| 9 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 10 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |
via English un
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | un | One |