Where does “user-hostile” come from?

user-hostile (English) comes from English hostile, from Middle French hostile, from Latin hostīlis, from Latin -ilis, from Proto-Italic -elis, from Proto-Indo-European -elis, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

user-hostile (English): Difficult to use, especially for an untrained...

Definitions

  1. Difficult to use, especially for an untrained...

Ancestry of “user-hostile”, step by step

user-hostile traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English hostile

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishhostileNot friendly, appropriate to an enemy; showing...
2Middle Frenchhostile—
3Latinhostīlishostile
4Latin-ilis-ile
5Proto-Italic-elis—
6Proto-Indo-European-elis—
7Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots

via English user

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishuserOne who uses or makes use of something, a...
2EnglishRThe ordinal number eighteenth, derived from this...
3Etruscan𐌓—
4Ancient GreekΡrho
5Phoenician𐤓reš; resh
6Egyptian𓁶—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -lós →Every word from Latin -ilis →Every word from Latin hostīlis →