Where does “millinery” come from?

Millinery comes from English milliner, a person who makes or sells items from Milan, ultimately from Latin -arius, an agent suffix derived from the verb-forming -are.

millinery (English): Women's hats; A shop selling women's hats; The...

Definitions

  1. Women's hats; A shop selling women's hats; The...

Ancestry of “millinery”, 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
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ḱosEvery word from English -yEvery word from Old English -iġ