English
shootless
From shoot + -less.
Formed from shoot + -less
Proto-Germanic *skeutaną ‘to shoot, dash’
Proto-West Germanic *skeutan ‘to shoot’
Old English scēotan ‘to shoot’
Middle English scheten
English shoot
Today it means
adj Without shoots.
Sources
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