Where does “grassy” come from?

Grassy comes from Middle English grasy, formed with the Middle English suffix -y (from Middle French -ie, from Latin -ium) attached to a root deriving from Proto-Indo-European gʰreH₁- meaning to grow or thrive.

grassy (English): Covered with grass; Resembling grass

Definitions

  1. Covered with grass; Resembling grass

Ancestry of “grassy”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishgrasygrassy
2Middle EnglishgrasA grass; Any plant; especially a herbaceous one;...
3Old Englishgræsgrass
4Proto-West Germanicgrasgrass
5Proto-Germanicgrasągrass
6Proto-Indo-Europeanǵʰreh₁-to become green, grow; to grow; to green, to grow

Words derived from “grassy”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰreh₁- →