Etymology

matchless

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Today it means: Having no match; without equal. Full definition →

Middle English makeless
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matchless · adjective1

  1. Middle English · derived frommakeless“having no peer or equal, matchless”
  2. English todaymatchless

From match + -less, modelled after or partly continuing Middle English makeless (“having no peer or equal, matchless”), equivalent to make + -less. Compare Swedish makalös (“incomparable, matchless”), Danish mageløs (“matchless”).

matchless · adjective2

  1. Ancient Greekμύξα (múxa)
  2. Latinmyxa?
  3. Vulgar Latinmicca
  4. Old Frenchmesche
  5. Middle Englishmecche
  6. Englishmatch
  7. Proto-Indo-European*lewh₁-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*lewHs-
  9. Proto-Germanic*leusaną
  10. Proto-Germanic*lausaz
  11. English todaymatchless

From match + -less.

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