Where does “lumpy” come from?

Lumpy comes from Middle English -y, Middle French -ie, Latin -ia, Latin -ivus, and Proto-Indo-European -kos, forming an adjective suffix chain describing a quality or condition.

lumpy (English): Full of lumps, not smooth; Of a water surface:...

Definitions

  1. Full of lumps, not smooth; Of a water surface:...

Ancestry of “lumpy”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-yAdded to nouns and adjectives to form adjectives...
2Middle English-yDesignates an adjective, in many cases formed by...
3Old English-iġ-y, -ic
4Proto-West Germanic-gForms adjectives from nouns and verbs with a...
5Proto-Germanic-gaz-y
6Proto-Indo-European-ḱos-y, -ic

Words derived from “lumpy

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ḱos
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