Etymology

unencrypted

U1N1E1N1C3R1Y4P3T1E1D2

Today it means: Of something that has been decrypted successfully, or of something that should have been encrypted, but was not. Full definition →

English encrypted ← Middle English un- ← Old English un-
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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. Englishencrypted
  9. English todayunencrypted

From un- + encrypted.

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