## AI Etymology
hairless comes from hair (Old English hǣr) + -less ('without', Old English -lēas). Morphologically, the ending is part of the etymology: the suffix is attached to the older base named in the history, producing a later English derivative. In present English, the adjective sense is "having no hair", so the historical development ends in a clearly identifiable modern dictionary use. The same base also appears in related forms such as hair and hairy, and in derivatives such as hairlessness. Its semantic neighborhood includes bald, glabrous, smooth, and depilated, which helps locate the modern sense without adding a separate etymological claim. The named historical forms include Old English hǣr and Old English -lēas.

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