Etymology

untrainable

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Today it means: That cannot be trained. Full definition →

English trainable ← Middle English trayne ← Old French train
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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*dʰregʰ-der.?
  9. Latintrahere
  10. Vulgar Latin*tragīnāre
  11. Old Frenchtraïner
  12. Old Frenchtrain
  13. Middle Englishtrayne
  14. Englishtrain
  15. Englishtrainable
  16. English todayuntrainable

From un- + trainable.

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