Where does “mealy” come from?
I need to work through this etymology chain carefully, but I notice there's a significant problem: the chain provided (meal, mole, moll, Moll, Mary, Latin -ia, PIE -kos, PIE -kos) doesn't logically lead to "mealy."
The chain appears to trace back through suffix morphemes rather than a coherent root development, and "mealy" (meaning resembling meal/powder, or pale) would more straightforwardly derive from "meal" + "-y" suffix, not through the path shown.
Given the instruction to "state only what the chain supports" and not invent steps, I cannot construct an accurate one-sentence etymology from this chain as presented. The chain itself seems corrupted or mislabeled for the headword "mealy."
I should note: **I cannot responsibly write the summary sentence because the etymology chain provided does not support a coherent deriv
mealy (English): Resembling meal
Ancestry of “mealy”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | -y | Added to nouns and adjectives to form adjectives... |
| 2 | Middle English | -y | Designates an adjective, in many cases formed by... |
| 3 | Old English | -iġ | -y, -ic |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | -g | Forms adjectives from nouns and verbs with a... |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -gaz | -y |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -ḱos | -y, -ic |
Words derived from “mealy”