Etymology

undersense

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Today it means: To sense or detect to an inadequate degree. Full definition →

English sense ← Middle English sense ← Old French sens
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁entér
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂én
  4. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-?
  5. Proto-Indo-European*(H)n̥dʰí
  6. Proto-Indo-European*(H)n̥dʰér
  7. Proto-Germanic*under
  8. Proto-West Germanic*undar
  9. Old Englishunder-
  10. Middle Englishunder-
  11. Englishunder-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*sent-
  13. Proto-Italic*sentiō
  14. Latinsentiō
  15. Latinsēnsu
  16. Proto-Germanic*sinnaz
  17. Frankish*sinn
  18. Vulgar Latin*sennus
  19. Old Frenchsens
  20. Middle Englishsense
  21. Englishsense
  22. English todayundersense

From under- + sense.

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