Where does “grasshopperdom” come from?
grasshopperdom (English) comes from English grasshopper, from Middle English gressehopper, from Middle English grashope, from Old English græshoppa, from Old English hoppa, from English -er, from Middle English -er, from Old French -er — he, she.
grasshopperdom (English): The state or essence of being a grasshopper
Definitions
- The state or essence of being a grasshopper
Ancestry of “grasshopperdom”, step by step
grasshopperdom traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English grasshopper
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | grasshopper | A mostly herbivorous insect of the order... |
| 2 | Middle English | gressehopper | grasshopper, cicada; Something else which leaps... |
| 3 | Middle English | grashope | grasshopper, cicada; locust |
| 4 | Old English | græshoppa | grasshopper, locust |
| 5 | Old English | hoppa | one who hops, hopper; hopper |
| 6 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 7 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 8 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 9 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 14 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via English DOM
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | DOM | Initialism of date of marriage; Initialism of... |
| 2 | English | dominance | The state of being dominant; of prime importance;... |
| 3 | English | -ance | Added to an adjective or verb to form a noun... |
| 4 | Middle English | -aunce | Forms nouns indicating states or processes, usually from verbs or other nouns; -ance |
| 5 | Old French | -ance | ance (suffix used to form nouns) |
| 6 | Latin | -ia | Used to form a feminine abstract noun, usually... |
| 7 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |