Etymology

non-violent

Today it means: Of a deed, event etc., without violence. Full definition →

English violent ← Middle English violent ← Old French violent
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Germanic*ne
  3. Proto-Indo-European*ís?
  4. Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
  5. Proto-Germanic*ainaz
  6. Proto-Germanic*nainaz
  7. Proto-West Germanic*nain
  8. Old Englishnān
  9. Middle Englishnon
  10. Old Englishnān
  11. Old Englishnān-
  12. Middle Englishnon-
  13. Englishnon-
  14. Latinviolentu
  15. Old Frenchviolent
  16. Middle Englishviolent
  17. Englishviolent
  18. English todaynon-violent

From non- + violent.

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