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unmaternal

adj

Etymology

From un- + maternal.

  1. derived from *méh₂tēr✻ — “mother”
  2. derived from māternus — “maternal; related to the mother or her side of the family”
  3. derived from māternālis — “maternal”
  4. derived from maternel — “maternal”
  5. inherited from maternal
  6. prefixed as unmaternal — “un + maternal”

Definitions

  1. Not maternal

    Not maternal; not befitting a mother.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA