Etymology

unembarrassment

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Today it means: Lack of embarrassment. Full definition →

English embarrassment ← French embarrasser ← Spanish embarazar
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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. Akkadian𒆟 (rakāsum)
  9. Akkadian𒄙 (markasu)
  10. Classical Syriacܡܰܪܫܳܐ (maršā)
  11. Arabicمَرَسَة (marasa)
  12. Old Galician-Portuguesebaraço
  13. Old Galician-Portugueseembaraçar
  14. Old Spanishembaraçar
  15. Spanishembarazar
  16. Frenchembarrasser
  17. Englishembarrass
  18. Englishembarrassment
  19. English todayunembarrassment

From un- + embarrassment.

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