Where does “perkily” come from?
perkily (English) comes from English perky, from English perk, from English percolate, from Latin percolatus, from Latin percōlō, from Latin colō, from Latin quelō, from Proto-Italic kʷelō — to turn.
perkily (English): In a perky manner
Ancestry of “perkily”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | perky | Lively or enthusiastic; Standing upright; firm |
| 2 | English | perk | Perquisite; A bonus ability that a player... |
| 3 | English | percolate | To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to... |
| 4 | Latin | percolatus | strained through, filtered through, percolated |
| 5 | Latin | percōlō | — |
| 6 | Latin | colō | — |
| 7 | Latin | quelō | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |