Where does “skyrockety” come from?

skyrockety (English) comes from English skyrocket, from English rocket, from French roquette, from Italian rocchetta, from Italian rocchetto, from Italian -etto, from English -et, from Middle English -et — Forms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality.

skyrockety (English): Suddenly surging or spiking upward

Definitions

  1. Suddenly surging or spiking upward

Ancestry of “skyrockety”, step by step

skyrockety traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English skyrocket

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishskyrocketA type of firework that uses a solid rocket...
2EnglishrocketA rocket engine; A non-guided missile propelled...
3Frenchroquetterocket weapon
4Italianrocchettaincendiary rocket
5Italianrocchettospool; reel; coil
6Italian-ettoAlterative suffix used to form melioratives,...
7English-etUsed to form diminutives, loosely construed
8Middle English-etForms diminutive nouns from nouns; in some words,...
9Old French-etUsed to form a diminutive, masculine noun;...
10Latin-ātused
11Proto-Italic-ātos
12Proto-Indo-European-éh₂tosForms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality

via English Y

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishYA figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y; A...
2EnglishyuriA narrative or visual work featuring a romance or...
3Japanese百合lily
4Japanese連用形an inflectional category: the continuative or...
5Japanese見るto see, to watch, to observe, to look at...
6Japanesea dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state...
7Old Japanesea dream
8Japanesean order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger...
9Middle Chinese
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂tosEvery word from Latin -ātusEvery word from Italian -etto
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