Where does “ivied” come from?

Ivied comes from Old English -od, from Proto-Germanic -ōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European -tós, a suffix forming adjectives from verbal roots.

ivied (English): Overgrown with ivy or another climbing plant

Definitions

  1. Overgrown with ivy or another climbing plant

Ancestry of “ivied”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishIvyA university that is part of the Ivy League
2Middle Englishiviivy
3Old Englishīfiġivy
4Tagalogibigliking
5Proto-Germanicibahsivy
6Proto-Indo-European(h₁)ebʰ-climbing

Words derived from “ivied”

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