Etymology

nonbreakable

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Today it means: Not easily broken. Full definition →

English breakable ← Middle English breken ← Old English brecan
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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. Proto-Indo-European*bʰreg-
  15. Proto-Indo-European*bʰrégeti
  16. Proto-Germanic*brekaną
  17. Proto-West Germanic*brekan
  18. Old Englishbrecan
  19. Middle Englishbreken
  20. Englishbreak
  21. Englishbreakable
  22. English todaynonbreakable

From non- + breakable.

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