Etymology

undefeatable

U1N1D2E1F4E1A1T1A1B3L1E1

Today it means: Not defeatable; impossible to defeat. Full definition →

English defeat ← 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. Englishdefeat
  9. English todayundefeatable

From un- + defeat + -able.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.