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
- Women's hats; A shop selling women's hats; The...
Ancestry of “millinery”, 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 |