The story
- Old English · inherited fromunēaþe“difficult, not easy”
- Middle English · inherited fromunethe
- English todayuneath
From Middle English unethe, uneathe (“difficult, not easy”), from Old English unēaþe (“difficult, not easy”). By surface analysis, un- + eath. See eath, easy for further. First attested in the Old English period.
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishunethe all →
uneasy
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.