" inchoate "

[Adjective]  | "in*cho*ate" | \ in-ˈkō-ət \

1: being only partly in existence or operation : incipient; especially : imperfectly formed or formulated : formless, incoherent

Origin: 1534 ;

 Borrowed from Latin incohātus, inchoātus "only begun, unfinished, imperfect," from past participle of incohāre "to start work on, begin, initiate," perhaps, if the original sense was "to yoke a plow to a team of oxen," from in- {see: |in-:2|in-:2} + -cohāre, verbal derivative of cohum "hollow in the middle of a yoke into which a pole is fitted" or "strap used to attach the pole to the yoke," of uncertain origin;

  * Note : The word cohum is known only from the work of the grammarians {varro|Varro:b} and Sextus Pompeius Festus, and their definitions may have been influenced by the presumed etymologies. Varro, who took the word to mean "hollow in the middle of a yoke" ("sub jugo medio cavum"), may have associated it with cavum "cavity, hole," which he uses as the genus term. Festus, who defines it as a strap or thong (lorum), associates it with cohibēre "to hold together, keep in place." If these meanings are correct, cohum may be linked to a putative western Indo-European verbal base *kagh- "grasp, enclose" (see: the note at {haw:1|haw:1}), with an of secondary origin. But given the lack of textual evidence for cohum, any etymology must remain speculative.;

[Adjective]  | "inchoate"