Where does “sourhead” come from?
sourhead (English) comes from English sour, from Middle English sour, from Old French essorer, from Vulgar Latin exaurare, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis, from Old Latin com(m)oinis — resin.
sourhead (English): One who is grumpy, negative, and bad-tempered
Definitions
- One who is grumpy, negative, and bad-tempered
Ancestry of “sourhead”, step by step
sourhead traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English sour
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | sour | Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste; Made... |
| 2 | Middle English | sour | sour, acidic, bitter; foul-smelling, rancid;... |
| 3 | Old French | essorer | to fly up, soar |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | exaurare | to rise into the air; to expose to air; to rise... |
| 5 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 6 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 7 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 8 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
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 |