Words that come from Middle English -y

400 words across 37 languages descend from Middle English -y — including simply, easy, easily, happy, baby, happiness, easier, angry.

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English (237)

Middle English (41)

Danish (22)

German (10)

Welsh (8)

Norwegian Nynorsk (8)

Finnish (7)

Norwegian Bokmål (7)

Vietnamese (6)

Dutch (5)

French (4)

Italian (4)

Japanese (4)

Cebuano (3)

Portuguese (3)

Spanish (3)

Romanian (3)

Chinese (2)

Faroese (2)

Hungarian (2)

Yola (2)

Tok Pisin (2)

Catalan (1)

Estonian (1)

Arabic (1)

Korean (1)

Hausa (1)

Greek (1)

Russian (1)

Hawaiian (1)

Yup'ik (1)

Scottish Gaelic (1)

Scots (1)

Pennsylvania German (1)

Lower Sorbian (1)

Tarifit (1)

Esperanto (1)