Where does “shaggy” come from?
Shaggy comes from Middle English -y, Middle French -ie, Latin -ia, Latin -ivus, Latin -ia, Proto-Indo-European -kos, and Proto-Indo-European -kos.
shaggy (English): With long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur or wool;...
Definitions
- With long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur or wool;...
Ancestry of “shaggy”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | shag | Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc;... |
| 2 | English | shower | A brief fall of precipitation; A device for... |
| 3 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 4 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 5 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 6 | Latin | -ārius | er |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals) |