Where does “rummagy” come from?
rummagy (English) comes from English rummage, from Middle English ronage, from Old French arrumage, from Old French arrumer, from Middle Dutch ruum, from Old Dutch rūm, from Proto-West Germanic rūm, from Proto-Germanic rūmaz — free space.
rummagy (English): messy
Definitions
- messy
Ancestry of “rummagy”, step by step
rummagy traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English rummage
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | rummage | To arrange in the hold of a ship; to move or... |
| 2 | Middle English | ronage | Accommodation or arrangement of cargo in a ship, stowage |
| 3 | Old French | arrumage | — |
| 4 | Old French | arrumer | to arrange the cargo in the hold |
| 5 | Middle Dutch | ruum | — |
| 6 | Old Dutch | rūm | roomy, spacious |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | rūm | roomy, spacious; room, open space |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | rūmaz | roomy, spacious, open |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | rewh₁- | free space |
via English Y
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Y | A figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y; A... |
| 2 | English | yuri | A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or... |
| 3 | Japanese | 百合 | lily |
| 4 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 5 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 6 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 7 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 8 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 9 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |