Etymology

inextinguishable

Today it means: Incapable of being extinguished or ended, not extinguishable. Full definition →

English extinguishable ← Middle English in- ← Latin in-
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Italic*n̥-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Middle Englishin-
  6. Englishin-
  7. Englishextinguish
  8. Englishextinguishable
  9. English todayinextinguishable

From in- + extinguishable.

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