Etymology

nondifference

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Today it means: Absence of difference. Full definition →

English difference ← Middle English difference ← Old French difference
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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*dwóh₁
  15. Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
  16. Proto-Indo-European*d(w)is-
  17. Proto-Italic*dis-
  18. Latindis-
  19. Proto-Indo-European*bʰer-
  20. Proto-Indo-European*bʰéreti
  21. Proto-Italic*ferō
  22. Latinferō
  23. Latindifferō
  24. Latindifferēns
  25. Latindifferentia
  26. Old Frenchdifference
  27. Middle Englishdifference
  28. Englishdifference
  29. English todaynondifference

From non- + difference.

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