Where does “perkyish” come from?
perkyish (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.
perkyish (English): Somewhat perky
Definitions
- Somewhat perky
Ancestry of “perkyish”, step by step
perkyish traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English perky
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | to strain or filter through; to percolate |
| 6 | Latin | colō | to cultivate the land, till, tend, take care of a field or garden |
| 7 | Latin | quelō | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | to inhabit |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |
via English ish
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ish | Pronunciation spelling of is; somewhat,... |
| 2 | English | -ish | Typical of, similar to, being like; Somewhat,... |
| 3 | Middle English | -ish | Alternative form of -yssh |
| 4 | Old English | -isċ | -ish |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | -isk | Creates adjectives from nouns |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | -iskaz | Forms adjectives from nouns with the sense of... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -iskos | Characteristic of, typical of, pertaining to |