Where does “headedness” come from?
Headedness comes from English headed plus the Old English suffix -nes, derived from Proto-Germanic haubudą and Proto-Indo-European kauput-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European kapōlo meaning head.
headedness (English): The state or quality of having a particular type...
Definitions
- The state or quality of having a particular type...
Ancestry of “headedness”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | headed | Of a sheet of paper: having the sender's name,... |
| 2 | English | head | The part of the body of an animal or human which... |
| 3 | English | -y | Added to nouns and adjectives to form adjectives... |
| 4 | Middle English | -y | Designates an adjective, in many cases formed by... |
| 5 | Old English | -iġ | -y, -ic |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | -g | Forms adjectives from nouns and verbs with a... |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | -gaz | -y |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -ḱos | -y, -ic |