Etymology

unprofitable

U1N1P3R1O1F4I1T1A1B3L1E1

Today it means: Not making a profit. Full definition →

English profitable ← Middle English un- ← Old English un-
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

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. Englishprofitable
  9. English todayunprofitable

From un- + profitable.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.