Etymology

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Today it means: Not sweet. Full definition →

Middle English unswete ← Old English unswēte ← Proto-West Germanic *unswōtī
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*unswōtuz“unsweet”
  2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*unswōtī
  3. Old English · inherited fromunswēte“unsweet; bitter; sour”
  4. Middle English · inherited fromunswete
  5. English todayunsweet

From Middle English unswete, from Old English unswēte (“unsweet; bitter; sour”), from Proto-West Germanic *unswōtī, from Proto-Germanic *unswōtuz (“unsweet”), equivalent to un- + sweet. Cognate with West Frisian ûnswiet (“unsweet”), Dutch onzoet (“unsweet”), German Low German unsööt (“unsweet”), German unsüß (“unsweet”), Swedish osöt (“unsweet”), Icelandic ósætur (“unsweet”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.