Etymology

unemotionally

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Today it means: In an unemotional manner. Full definition →

English unemotional ← Middle French emotion ← Old French esmovoir
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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. Latinēmoveō
  9. Vulgar Latin*exmovēre
  10. Old Frenchesmovoir
  11. Middle Frenchesmouvoir
  12. Middle Frenchemotion
  13. Englishemotion
  14. Englishemotional
  15. Englishunemotional
  16. English todayunemotionally

From unemotional + -ly.

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