The story
- Middle English · inherited fromnameles
- English todaynameless
From Middle English nameles, equivalent to name + -less. Cognate with Dutch naamloos (“nameless”), German namenlos (“nameless”), Danish navnløs (“nameless”), Swedish namnlös (“nameless”), Icelandic nafnlaus (“nameless, anonymous”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.