Where does “Kentuckian” come from?

Kentuckian derives from English Kentucky, from Italian -ana, from Spanish -ana, from Latin -anus, ultimately from Proto-Italic -os, a masculine singular suffix.

Kentuckian (English): Of or pertaining to the US state of Kentucky; A...

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to the US state of Kentucky; A...

Ancestry of “Kentuckian”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-ánOf or pertaining to;. Often added to words of Latin origin, but also used with words of other origins. When a word ends in a
2Middle English-an—
Every word from Middle English -an →