uncompounded

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Germanic *un-

Proto-West Germanic *un-

Old English un-

Middle English un-

English un-

English compounded

English uncompounded

From un- + compounded.

Adjective

uncompounded (not comparable)

1. Not compounded.
   • 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xii:

     The short uncompounded names were naturally even less comprehensible than the compounded ones; […]

Derived terms

• uncompoundedly
• uncompoundedness

Translations

not compounded

• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܦܫܺܝܛܳܐ / ܦܫܝܼܛܵܐ (pšīṭoʾ / pšīṭāʾ)

• Armenian:

  Old Armenian: տարրական (tarrakan)

• Manx: neuchovestit
• Tibetan: འདུས་མ་བྱས ('dus ma byas) (not aggregated)