Etymology

antigun

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Today it means: Opposed to guns, especially widespread individual use of guns. Full definition →

English gun ← Middle English gunne ← Old Norse Gunnhildr
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ent-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂énts
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂énti
  4. Ancient Greekᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)
  5. Ancient Greekἀντι- (anti-)
  6. Englishanti-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*gʷʰen-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*gʷʰéntis
  9. Proto-Germanic*gunþiz
  10. Old Norsegunnr
  11. Proto-Indo-European*kelh₂-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*kelh₂tís
  13. Proto-Germanic*hildiz
  14. Old Norsehildr
  15. Old NorseGunnhildr
  16. Middle Englishgunne
  17. Englishgun
  18. English todayantigun

From anti- + gun.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.