Where does “crunchy” come from?

Crunchy comes from English crunch, which derives from English craunch, traced through Middle French -ie and Latin -ia, -ivus, and -ia formations built on Proto-Indo-European -kos.

crunchy (English): Likely to crunch, especially with reference to...

Definitions

  1. Likely to crunch, especially with reference to...

Ancestry of “crunchy”, 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 “crunchy

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ḱosEvery word from English -yEvery word from Old English -iġ