Where does “shroomhead” come from?
shroomhead (English) comes from English shroom, from English mushroom, from Middle English muscheron, from Anglo-Norman musherum, from Old French moisseron, from Old French mosse, from Frankish mosa, from Proto-Germanic musą — fly, stinging fly, gnat; moist, damp; swamp,...
shroomhead (English): One who takes magic mushrooms
Definitions
- One who takes magic mushrooms
Ancestry of “shroomhead”, step by step
shroomhead traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English shroom
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | shroom | A magic mushroom: a hallucinogenic fungus; Any... |
| 2 | English | mushroom | Any of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi... |
| 3 | Middle English | muscheron | mushroom |
| 4 | Anglo-Norman | musherum | — |
| 5 | Old French | moisseron | — |
| 6 | Old French | mosse | moss |
| 7 | Frankish | mosa | moss |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | musą | moss, bog |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | mūs- | fly, stinging fly, gnat; moist, damp; swamp,... |
via English head
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | head | The part of the body of an animal or human which... |
| 2 | English | -y | Added to nouns and adjectives to form adjectives... |
| 3 | Middle English | -y | Designates an adjective, in many cases formed by... |
| 4 | Old English | -iġ | -y, -ic |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | -g | Forms adjectives from nouns and verbs with a... |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | -gaz | -y |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -ḱos | -y, -ic |