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Where does “Crayette” come from?

Crayette (English) comes from English Cray, from Dutch kraai, from French craie, from Latin Crēta, from Latin -āceus, from Latin -āx, from Latin -ium, from Latin -ius — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.

Crayette (English): Any minisupercomputer with an instruction set...

Definitions

  1. Any minisupercomputer with an instruction set...

Ancestry of “Crayette”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishCray—
2DutchkraaiA crow, "Corvus corone"; One of certain related...
3Frenchcraiechalk
4LatinCrēta—
5Latin-āceus—
6Latin-āx—
7Latin-iumSuffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes...
8Latin-iusforming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter...
9Proto-Italic-jōsForms comparative adjectives
10Proto-Indo-European-yósCreates adjectives from noun or verb stems
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