Where does “crooningly” come from?
crooningly (English) comes from English crooning, from Middle English cronyng, from Middle Dutch crônen, from Middle Dutch crône, from Old Dutch corōna, from Latin corōna, from Spanish -illa, from Old Spanish -iella — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
crooningly (English): With a crooning sound
Definitions
- With a crooning sound
Ancestry of “crooningly”, step by step
crooningly traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English crooning
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | crooning | The act of creating a croon; present participle... |
| 2 | Middle English | cronyng | singing, humming |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | crônen | to groan, to moan |
| 4 | Middle Dutch | crône | crown, wreath |
| 5 | Old Dutch | corōna | — |
| 6 | Latin | corōna | chaplet, laurel, or wreath; presented to athletes, the gods, or the dead |
| 7 | Spanish | -illa | Added to feminine nouns to denote a diminutive... |
| 8 | Old Spanish | -iella | A diminutive suffix |
| 9 | Latin | -ella | inflection of -ellus: ## nominative/vocative... |
| 10 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 11 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |