Etymology

nonfluorescent

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Today it means: Not fluorescent Full definition →

English fluorescent ← Middle English sparston ← Old English spærstān
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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*bʰel-
  15. Proto-Indo-European*bʰlewH-
  16. Proto-Indo-European*bʰluH-yé-ti?
  17. Latinfluō
  18. Latinfluor
  19. Englishfluor
  20. Englishfluorite
  21. Middle Low Germanspar
  22. Old Englishspærstān
  23. Middle Englishsparston
  24. Englishsparstonebf.
  25. Englishspar
  26. Englishfluorspar
  27. Englishfluorescencebf.
  28. Englishfluoresce
  29. Englishfluorescent
  30. English todaynonfluorescent

From non- + fluorescent.

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