The story
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*unhailagaz
- Old English · inherited fromunhāliġ
- Middle English · inherited fromunholi
- English todayunholy
From Middle English unholi, unhaliȝ, from Old English unhāliġ, from Proto-Germanic *unhailagaz, equivalent to un- + holy. Cognate with Scots unhaly, Dutch onheilig, German Low German unhillig, German unheilig, Danish uhellig, Swedish ohelig.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.