Etymology

noneconomic

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Today it means: Not of an economic nature. Full definition →

English economic ← Middle English economike, iconomique ← Old French iconomike
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  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*weyḱ-
  15. Proto-Indo-European*wóyḱos
  16. Proto-Hellenic*wóikos
  17. Ancient Greekϝοῖκος (woîkos)
  18. Ancient Greekοἶκος (oîkos)
  19. Proto-Indo-European*nem-
  20. Proto-Indo-European*németi
  21. Proto-Hellenic*némō
  22. Ancient Greekνέμω (némō)
  23. Ancient Greekνόμος (nómos)
  24. Ancient Greekοἰκονόμος (oikonómos)
  25. Ancient Greekοἰκονομικός (oikonomikós)
  26. Latinoeconomicus
  27. Old Frenchiconomike
  28. Middle Englishiconomique
  29. Middle Englisheconomike, iconomique
  30. Englisheconomic
  31. English todaynoneconomic

From non- + economic.

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