The story
- Middle English · inherited fromunsemli
- English todayunseemly
From Middle English unsemli, probably a partial calque of Old Norse úsǽmiligr (“unseemly”); equivalent to un- + seemly. Cognate with Icelandic ósæmileg (“offensive”), Norwegian usømmelig (“unseemly”), Danish usømmelig (“unseemly”), German unziemlich.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.