Where does “onlust” come from?

onlust (Middle Dutch) comes from Old Dutch *unlust, from Proto-Germanic *unlustu, from Proto-Germanic unlustuz, from Proto-Germanic un-, from Proto-Indo-European n̥-, from Proto-Indo-European ne — not.

onlust (Middle Dutch): tedium, weakness, nausea

Definitions

  1. tedium, weakness, nausea

Ancestry of “onlust”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Dutch*unlust—
2Proto-Germanic*unlustu—
3Proto-Germanicunlustuzapathy, listlessness, lack of desire
4Proto-Germanicun-not, un-
5Proto-Indo-Europeann̥-not, un-
6Proto-Indo-Europeannenot
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