Where does “teenie-bopper” come from?
teenie-bopper (English) comes from English bopper, from English -er, from Middle English -er, from Old French -er, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).
Ancestry of “teenie-bopper”, step by step
teenie-bopper traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English bopper
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | bopper | A person who dances the bop |
| 2 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 3 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 4 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 5 | Latin | -ārius | er |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals) |