Etymology

inexhaustibility

Today it means: The state or condition of being inexhaustible. Full definition →

English exhaustibility ← Latin exhaustus ← Proto-Italic *auziō
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Italic*n̥-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Middle Englishin-
  6. Englishin-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰ
  8. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰs
  9. Proto-Italic*eks
  10. Latinex
  11. Latinex-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ews-
  13. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ews-ye-ti
  14. Proto-Italic*auziō
  15. Latinhauriō
  16. Latinexhauriō
  17. Latinexhaustus
  18. Englishexhaust
  19. Englishexhaustible
  20. Englishinexhaustible
  21. Englishin-
  22. Englishexhaustible
  23. Englishexhaustibility
  24. English todayinexhaustibility

From inexhaustible + -ity or in- + exhaustibility.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.