Where does “doty” come from?
Doty comes from Middle English -y, from Middle French -ie, from Latin -ia, from Latin -ivus, from Latin -ia, from Proto-Indo-European -kos.
doty (English): Suffering from rot, or waterlogged; Senile; in...
Definitions
- Suffering from rot, or waterlogged; Senile; in...
Ancestry of “doty”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | dote | To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody; To... |
| 2 | Middle French | doter | — |
| 3 | Latin | doto | I endow |
| 4 | Latin | dōs | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | dōtis | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | déh₃tis | giving |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tis | Derives abstract/action nouns from verb roots |