Etymology

unbanked

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Today it means: Not having been banked. Full definition →

English bank ← Middle French banque ← Italian banca
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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*bʰeg-
  9. Proto-Germanic*bankiz
  10. Proto-West Germanic*banki
  11. Lombardicbank
  12. Italianbanca
  13. Middle Frenchbanque
  14. Englishbank
  15. English todayunbanked

From un- + bank + -ed.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.