## Etymology
From un- ('not') + bothered, past participle of bother, a word of uncertain origin, first recorded in 18th-century Anglo-Irish writers, possibly from Irish bodhraim ('I deafen, annoy').

## AI Etymology
Unbothered comes from un- ('not') + bothered, past participle of bother, a word of uncertain origin, first recorded in 18th-century Anglo-Irish writers, possibly from Irish bodhraim ('I deafen, annoy'). The historical chain includes Old English un- and Irish bodhraim. The quoted older senses, "not" and "I deafen, annoy", supply the semantic anchors for unbothered. The formation is best read as compound, participial, and borrowed: the word unbothered carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a adj, "not troubled, annoyed, or concerned". Related English forms include bother, bothered, and bothersome. The result is a adj whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

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