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unavailable (adj.)
[unavailable 词源字典]
1540s, "ineffectual," from
un-
(1) "not" +
available
. Meaning "incapable of being used" is recorded from 1855.
Unavailing
has taken up the older sense of the word.
[unavailable etymology, unavailable origin, 英语词源]