Where does “baby” come from?

Baby comes from Middle English baby, from Middle English babe, from Middle English baban, from Old English baba, from Proto-Germanic bō-, from Proto-Indo-European bʰā-.

baby (English): A very young human, particularly from birth to a...

Definitions

  1. A very young human, particularly from birth to a...

Ancestry of “baby”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle EnglishbabyA child or baby
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 “baby”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ḱos →Every word from Old English -iġ →Every word from Middle English -y →