English

lack-pity

From lack + pity.

A compound of lack + pity

Proto-Germanic *lakaz ‘limp’

Proto-Germanic *laką

Proto-West Germanic *lak

Old English *læc ‘deficiency’

Middle English lack

English lack

Proto-Indo-European *pewH- ‘to be clean, pure’

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Latin pietās ‘dutiful conduct, sense of duty and…’

Old French pitet

Anglo-Norman pité

Middle English pitye

English pity

Today it means

adj merciless; pitiless

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

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