English
innermost
Innermost comes from Middle English innermost.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500innermost
- Englishearliest quotation 1977same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500innermost
- Englishearliest quotation 1977same form
Earliest quotation: 1977, Michael Spence Lowdell Morris, The Spirit of Michael Webfoot: “[…] he had decided to not seek outside of…”
Formed from inner + -most
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’
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Proto-West Germanic *in ‘in’
Old English in ‘in’
Old English innera ‘inner’
Middle English inner
English inner
Every English word from Middle English innermost
Today it means
adj That which is innermost; the core.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English innermost / innermost