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
- Covered with dust; Powdery and resembling dust;...
Ancestry of “dusty”, step by step
dusty traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle English dusty
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Middle English | dusty | dusty, dust-covered; like dust, powdery |
| 2 | Old English | dūstiġ | dusty |
| 3 | Old English | -iġ | -y, -ic |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | -g | Forms adjectives from nouns and verbs with a... |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -gaz | -y |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -ḱos | -y, -ic |
via Middle English dusti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Middle English | dusti | — |
| 2 | Old English | dystiġ | dusty |