Etymograph

English

innocuously

From innocuous + -ly.

A compound of innocuous + -ly

Proto-Indo-European *neḱ- ‘to perish, disappear’

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Proto-Italic *nokeō ‘to harm, hurt, injure’

Latin noceō ‘to harm, damage’

Latin nocuus ‘harmful’

Latin innocuus ‘harmless’

English innocuous

Today it means

adv In an innocuous manner.

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

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