Where does “untruthful” come from?
Untruthful comes from English truthful, which derives from English truth, traced through Proto-Indo-European óynos, ano-, ne, and pleh₁- meaning to fill or be full.
untruthful (English): Not giving the truth; providing untrue facts;...
Definitions
- Not giving the truth; providing untrue facts;...
Ancestry of “untruthful”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | truthful | Honest, and always telling the truth; Accurately... |
| 2 | English | truth | True facts, genuine depiction or statements of... |
| 3 | Middle English | troute | — |
| 4 | Old English | truht | trout |
| 5 | Old French | truite | — |
| 6 | Latin | tructa | a kind of trout |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | τρώκτης | gnawer, nibbler; greedy knave; kind of fish with... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | -τής | Appended to verbs to form agent nouns |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | πεῖρα | trial, experiment, attempt |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |
Words derived from “untruthful”