Etymology

unarted

U1N1A1R1T1E1D2

Today it means: Unskilled; uncultured, ignorant. Full definition →

English art ← Middle English art ← Old French art
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*h₂er-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*h₂értis
  10. Proto-Italic*artis
  11. Latinars
  12. Latinartem
  13. Old Frenchart
  14. Middle Englishart
  15. Englishart
  16. English todayunarted

From un- + art + -ed.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.