Etymology

uncountability

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Today it means: The quality of being uncountable. Full definition →

English count ← Middle English counten ← Anglo-Norman counter
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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. Latincomputō
  9. Anglo-Normancounter
  10. Middle Englishcounten
  11. Englishcount
  12. English todayuncountability

From un- + count + -ability.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.