Etymology

spaceless

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Proto-Germanic *lausaz ← Proto-Indo-European *lewHs- ← English space
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The story

  1. Latinspatium
  2. Old Frenchespace
  3. Anglo-Normanspace
  4. Middle Englishspace
  5. Englishspace
  6. Proto-Indo-European*lewh₁-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*lewHs-
  8. Proto-Germanic*leusaną
  9. Proto-Germanic*lausaz
  10. English todayspaceless

From space + -less.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.