Where does “creepy” come from?

Creepy comes from English creep with the Middle English suffix -y, from Middle French -ie, from Latin -ia, from Latin -ivus, from Latin -ia, from Proto-Indo-European -kos.

creepy (English): Moving by creeping along; Producing an uneasy...

Definitions

  1. Moving by creeping along; Producing an uneasy...

Ancestry of “creepy”, 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 “creepy”

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