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Where does “dusty” come from?

Dusty comes from Middle English dusty, from Old English dūstiġ, meaning full of dust or dust-like.

dusty (English): Covered with dust; Powdery and resembling dust;...

Definitions

  1. Covered with dust; Powdery and resembling dust;...

Ancestry of “dusty”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishdustydusty, dust-covered; like dust, powdery
2Old Englishdūstiġ—
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 “dusty”

  • dustiness
  • dustily
  • nondusty
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