Word Origin Summary

*un- is attested in Proto-West Germanic. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• uforsonlighet

  Norwegian Bokmål · inherited from

• u-

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• un-

  German · inherited from

• un-

  English · inherited from

• ongewis

  Dutch · derived from

• un-

  Old High German · inherited from

• uforsonlig

  Norwegian Bokmål · inherited from

• 𐌿𐌽-

  Gothic · inherited from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root