Etymograph

English

immeability

Immeability comes from Latin meabilis ‘passable’, from meō ‘to pass’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mey-o-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*mey-o-reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*mejo-reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmeōas meare‘to pass’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmeabilis‘passable’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1731immeability

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*mey-o-reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*mejo-reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmeōas meare‘to pass’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmeabilis‘passable’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1731immeability

Earliest quotation: 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments: “From this phlegm proceed white cold tumours, viscidity, and…”

Linked words

through Latin meō ‘to pass’

permeable, permeate, congee, 2 more

Today it means

noun Inability to pass through or to permit passage.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *mey-o- / immeability

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