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The story

Learned borrowing from French incommoder (‘to bother, disconcert, incommode’), from Latin incommodāre, the present active infinitive of incommodō (‘to inconvenience’), from in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + commodō (‘to accommodate, adapt; to bestow, provide; to hire, lend’) (from com- (a variant of con- (prefix indicating completeness or intensification)) + modō (the ablative or singular of modus (‘manner, method, way; bound, limit; measure’), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *med- (‘to measure’))). The English word is analysable as in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + commode (‘(archaic or obsolete) to provide (someone or something) with an appropriate, suitable, or necessary thing; to meet the requirements of (someone or something), suit; to repair (something)’).