Where does “unvisited” come from?
Unvisited derives from English visit, which traces through Proto-Indo-European óynos and ano- to the root weyd-, meaning to see or know.
unvisited (English): Not visited; Never visited
Definitions
- Not visited; Never visited
Ancestry of “unvisited”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | visited | past participle of visit; That has received a... |
| 2 | English | visit | To habitually go to to comfort them; To go and... |
| 3 | Middle English | visiten | — |
| 4 | Old French | visiter | — |
| 5 | Latin | vīsitō | — |
| 6 | Latin | -ito | Forms frequentative verbs from existing verbs or... |
| 7 | Latin | -tō | — |
| 8 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |