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Where does “scantiness” come from?

Scantiness derives from English scant plus the English suffix -y, which comes from Middle French -ie, ultimately tracing to Proto-Indo-European -kos through Latin -ivus and Latin -ia formations.

scantiness (English): The quality of being scanty; The result or...

Definitions

  1. The quality of being scanty; The result or...

Ancestry of “scantiness”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishscantySomewhat less than is needed in amplitude or...
2EnglishYA figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y; A...
3EnglishyuriA narrative or visual work featuring a romance or...
4Japanese百合lily; a style of 襲の色目 , featuring a red outer...
5Japanese連用形an inflectional category: the continuative or...
6Japanese見るto see, to watch, to observe, to look at...
7Japanese夢a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state...
8Old Japanese夢a dream
9Japanese目an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger...
10Middle Chinese目—
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