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non-nonsense

noun

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Germanic *ne Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Germanic *nainaz Proto-West Germanic *nain Old English nān Middle English non ▲ Old English nān Old English nān- Middle English non- English non- ▲ English non- Proto-Indo-European *sent-der. Proto-Italic *sentjō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin sēnsusbor. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz Frankish *sinnbor. Vulgar Latin *sennus Old French sensbor. Middle English sense English sense English nonsense English non-nonsense From non- + nonsense.

  1. derived from sense English sense English nonsense English non-nonsense From non- + nonsense
  2. derived from *sennus Old French sensbor✻
  3. derived from *sinnaz Frankish *sinnbor✻
  4. derived from *sentjō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin sēnsusbor✻
  5. derived from *né Proto-Germanic *ne Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Germanic *nainaz Proto-West Germanic *nain Old English nān Middle English non ▲ Old English nān Old English nān- Middle English non- English non- ▲ English non- Proto-Indo-European *sent-der✻

Definitions

  1. Not nonsense.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for non-nonsense. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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