## Etymology
From un- ('not') + due, from Old French deu, past participle of devoir ('to owe'), from Latin debere ('to owe'), from de- + habere ('to have').

## AI Etymology
Undue comes from un- ('not') + due, from Old French deu, past participle of devoir ('to owe'), from Latin debere ('to owe'), from de- + habere ('to have'). The historical chain includes Old English un-, Old French deu, Latin debere, and Latin habere. The quoted older senses, "not", "to owe", and "to have", supply the semantic anchors for undue. The formation is best read as compound, participial, and borrowed: the word undue carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a adj, "excessive or unwarranted; more than is appropriate". English derivatives include unduly and undueness; related English forms include due and duly. The result is a adj whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

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