Where does “crumbly” come from?
Crumbly comes from Middle English -y, Middle French -ie, Latin -ia, Latin -ivus, Latin -ia, Proto-Indo-European -kos, and Proto-Indo-European -kos.
crumbly (English): Easy to break into small fragments; brittle or...
Definitions
- Easy to break into small fragments; brittle or...
Ancestry of “crumbly”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | crumble | To fall apart; to disintegrate; To break into... |
| 2 | English | crymble | — |
| 3 | Middle English | crymblen | — |
| 4 | Old English | crymlan | to crumble |
| 5 | Old English | cruma | fragment; crumb |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | krumô | crumb, fragment |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | grū-mo- | something scraped together, lumber, junk; to... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ger- | to turn, bend, twist, wind; to tie, bind... |
Words derived from “crumbly”