Where does “scrappy” come from?

Scrappy derives from English scrap plus the Middle English suffix -y, which comes from Middle French -ie, tracing back through Latin -ia, -ivus, and -ia to Proto-Indo-European -kos.

scrappy (English): Consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity...

Definitions

  1. Consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity...

Ancestry of “scrappy”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-yAdded to nouns and adjectives to form adjectives...
2Middle English-yDesignates an adjective, in many cases formed by...
3Old English-iġ-y, -ic
4Proto-West Germanic-gForms adjectives from nouns and verbs with a...
5Proto-Germanic-gaz-y
6Proto-Indo-European-ḱos-y, -ic

Words derived from “scrappy”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ḱos →Every word from English -y →Every word from Old English -iġ →