Ungraceful comes from un- ('not') + graceful, from grace (from Old French grace, from Latin gratia 'favor, charm', from gratus 'pleasing') + -ful. The historical chain includes Old English un-, Latin gratia, Latin gratus, and Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH-. The quoted older senses, "not", "favor, charm", and "pleasing", supply the semantic anchors for ungraceful. The formation is best read as suffixal, compound, and borrowed: the word ungraceful carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a adj, "lacking grace or elegance; clumsy". English derivatives include ungracefully and ungracefulness; related English forms include grace, graceful, and gracious. The result is a adj whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.