Etymology

noncoherence

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Today it means: The quality of not being coherent. Full definition →

English coherence ← Middle French coherence ← Latin cohaerentia
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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*ḱe?
  15. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  16. Proto-Italic*kom
  17. Proto-Italic*kom-
  18. Latincon-
  19. Latinhaereō
  20. Latincohaereō
  21. Latincohaerēns
  22. Latincohaerentia
  23. Middle Frenchcoherence
  24. Englishcoherence
  25. English todaynoncoherence

From non- + coherence.

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