Etymology

unbreakability

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Today it means: The quality of being impossible to break. Full definition →

English breakability ← Middle English breken ← Old English brecan
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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*bʰreg-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*bʰrégeti
  10. Proto-Germanic*brekaną
  11. Proto-West Germanic*brekan
  12. Old Englishbrecan
  13. Middle Englishbreken
  14. Englishbreak
  15. Englishbreakability
  16. English todayunbreakability

From un- + breakability.

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