Where does “Joey” come from?

Joey comes from English Joe with the diminutive suffix -y, from Middle French -ie, from Latin -ia, ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European -kos, a suffix forming diminutives and agent nouns.

Joey (English): The immature young of a marsupial, notably a junior kangaroo, but also a young wallaby, koala, etc

Definitions

  1. The immature young of a marsupial, notably a junior kangaroo, but also a young wallaby, koala, etc

Ancestry of “Joey”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-yAdded to nouns and adjectives to form adjectives...
2Middle English-yDesignates an adjective, in many cases formed by...
3Old English-iġ-y, -ic
4Proto-West Germanic-gForms adjectives from nouns and verbs with a...
5Proto-Germanic-gaz-y
6Proto-Indo-European-ḱos-y, -ic

Words derived from “Joey”

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