Where does “untried” come from?
Untried derives from English un- plus tried, with un- ultimately tracing to Proto-Indo-European ne, a negative particle, and tried deriving from Latin through the same chain as try.
untried (English): Not yet tried or tested; unknown; Not put on...
Definitions
- Not yet tried or tested; unknown; Not put on...
Ancestry of “untried”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | Un- | — |
| 2 | Middle English | un- | — |
| 3 | Old English | un- | negation or absence of: un-, non-; bad; forms... |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | un- | not, un- |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | un- | not, un- |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | n̥- | not, un- |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ne | not |