Where does “steamy” come from?

Steamy comes from Middle English -y, Middle French -ie, Latin -ia, Latin -ivus, and Latin -ia, ultimately deriving from the Proto-Indo-European root steh₂-.

steamy (English): warm and humid; full of steam; resembling or...

Definitions

  1. warm and humid; full of steam; resembling or...

Ancestry of “steamy”, 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 “steamy”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ḱos →Every word from English -y →Every word from Old English -iġ →