English
sapless
From sap + -less.
A compound of sap + -less
Proto-Indo-European *sap-
Proto-West Germanic *sap ‘sap, juice’
Old English sæp ‘juice, sap’
Middle English sap
English sap
Today it means
adj Lacking in sap.
Sources
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Etymograph / sapless