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unto

conj
/ˈʌntʊ/UK/ˈʌntə/US

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English unto, from Old English *untō, *und tō, equivalent to un- (“against; toward; up to”) + to. Cognate with Old Frisian ont to ("until"; > Saterland Frisian antou (“until”)) (cf. Old Frisian und (“up to; till”), Old Frisian til (“till; to”)), Old Saxon untō, untuo (“until”), Old High German unze, unzi, unza (“until”), Old Norse und (“as far as; up to”), Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍄𐌴 (untē, “until; as long as”).

  1. inherited from *untō✻
  2. inherited from unto

Definitions

  1. Up to the time or degree that

    Up to the time or degree that; until.

    • Unto This Last (John Ruskin)

  2. Up to

    Up to; indicates a motion towards a thing and then stopping at it.

    • Sir Gawain rode unto the nearby castle.
    • Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands; Curtsied when you have, and kiss'd The wild waves whist, Foot it featly here and there, And sweet sprites bear The burthen.[…]

  3. To

    To; indicates an indirect object.

    • And the Lord said unto Moses […]
    • Again, whereas men affirm they perceive an addition of ponderosity in dead bodies, comparing them usually unto blocks and stones, whensoever they lift or carry them; this accessional preponderancy is rather in appearance than reality.
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    1. Down to the last

      Down to the last; encompassing even every.

      • ⁠I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing: And unto one her note is gay, ⁠For now her little ones have ranged; ⁠And unto one her note is changed, Because her brood is stol’n away.

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Derived

do unto others, do unto others as you would have them do unto you, go in unto, hereunto, hitherunto, law unto oneself, like unto, render unto Caesar, set fire unto, sickness unto death, sick unto death, sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof, thereunto, unto itself, unto't, unto the ages of ages, unto time, whereunto

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at unto. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at unto. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at unto

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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