Where does “shaky” come from?

Shaky comes from Middle English schaky, derived from Middle French -ie and Latin -ia suffixes attached to a root ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -kos.

shaky (English): Shaking or trembling; Nervous, anxious; Full of...

Definitions

  1. Shaking or trembling; Nervous, anxious; Full of...

Ancestry of “shaky”, 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 “shaky”

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