Etymology

unskilled

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Today it means: Of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training. Full definition →

English skilled ← Middle English skill ← Old Norse ski
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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. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kelH-
  9. Proto-Germanic*skilją
  10. Old Norseski
  11. Middle Englishskill
  12. Englishskill
  13. Englishskilled
  14. English todayunskilled

From un- + skilled.

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