Unfeigned is from un- ('not') + feigned, the past participle of feign, from Old French feindre ('to pretend, shape'), from Latin fingere ('to shape, form, contrive'). Important recorded forms include un- (Old English), feindre (Old French), fingere (Latin), and *dʰeyǵʰ- (Proto-Indo-European). Morphologically, the un- element marks negation, reversal, removal, or deprivation, while the base supplies the action, quality, or state being denied or undone. The modern sense is largely compositional, with the historical elements narrowing into a stable English lexical item. In current use it covers genuine and sincere; not pretended. The wider family includes derived forms such as unfeignedly and unfeignedness and related words such as feign, feigned, and feint.