Etymology

uncandid

U1N1C3A1N1D2I1D2

Today it means: Not candid; duplicitous, concealing or secretive. Full definition →

English candid ← Middle English un- ← Old English un-
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

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. Englishcandid
  9. English todayuncandid

From un- + candid.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.