Etymology

nonspirit

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Today it means: Absence of spirit; lifelessness, inanimateness. Full definition →

English spirit ← Middle English spirit ← Old French espirit
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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*(s)peys-der.?
  15. Latinspīrō
  16. Latinspīritu
  17. Old Frenchespirit
  18. Middle Englishspirit
  19. Englishspirit
  20. English todaynonspirit

From non- + spirit.

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