English
emotionlessly
Emotionlessly comes from English emotionless.
- English1500–presentemotionless
- Englishearliest quotation 2010emotionlessly
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history not traced here.
Lineage
- English1500–presentemotionless
- Englishearliest quotation 2010emotionlessly
Earliest quotation: 2010, Roslyn Sulcas, Asking Puzzling Questions, With Full-Frontal Intensity: “The Work The Work,” which ended on Saturday, is…”
A compound of emotionless + -ly
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- ‘to move’
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Old French esmovoir ‘to move’
Middle French esmouvoir ‘to move’
Middle French emotion
English emotion
English emotionless
Every English word from English emotionless
Today it means
adv Without emotion.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / English emotionless / emotionlessly