Where does “boskiness” come from?
boskiness (English) comes from English bosky, from English bosk, from Middle English bosk, from Middle English bush, from Old English busċ, from Latin bosca, from Late Latin busca, from Proto-West Germanic busk — to become, grow, appear.
boskiness (English): boscage; The state or quality of being bosky
Definitions
- boscage; The state or quality of being bosky
Ancestry of “boskiness”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | bosky | Having abundant bushes, shrubs or trees; Caused... |
| 2 | English | bosk | A bush; A thicket; a small wood |
| 3 | Middle English | bosk | — |
| 4 | Middle English | bush | grove, wood; thicket, underbrush; bush; branch of... |
| 5 | Old English | busċ | — |
| 6 | Latin | bosca | firewood |
| 7 | Late Latin | busca | — |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | busk | bush, thicket |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | buskaz | bush; thicket |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰuH- | to become, grow, appear |