Etymology

unlust

U1N1L1U1S1T1

Today it means: Displeasure; dislike. Full definition →

Middle English unlust ← Old English unlust ← Proto-West Germanic *unlust
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*unlustuz“listlessness”
  2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*unlust
  3. Old English · inherited fromunlust“displeasure, dislike”
  4. Middle English · inherited fromunlust
  5. English todayunlust

From Middle English unlust, from Old English unlust (“displeasure, dislike”), from Proto-West Germanic *unlust, from Proto-Germanic *unlustuz (“listlessness”). Equivalent to un- + lust.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.