Etymology

irresultative

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Today it means: Indicating an event or action not taken to completion, as with "I was writing" but not "I wrote". Full definition →

English resultative ← Latin ir- ← Proto-Italic *n̥-
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Italic*n̥-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Latinir-
  6. Englishir-
  7. Englishresultative
  8. English todayirresultative

From ir- + resultative.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.