Where does “trotty” come from?
trotty (English) comes from English trot, from Middle English trotten, from Old French trotter, from Medieval Latin trotto, from Frankish trottōn, from Proto-Germanic tradjaną, from Proto-Germanic -janą, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti — he, she.
trotty (English): Tending to trot; having a trotting gait
Definitions
- Tending to trot; having a trotting gait
Ancestry of “trotty”, step by step
trotty traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English trot
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | trot | An ugly old woman, a hag; A gait of a four-legged... |
| 2 | Middle English | trotten | — |
| 3 | Old French | trotter | — |
| 4 | Medieval Latin | trotto | to go |
| 5 | Frankish | trottōn | to go, run |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | tradjaną | to tread, trample |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 10 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via English Y
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Y | A figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y; A... |
| 2 | English | yuri | A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or... |
| 3 | Japanese | 百合 | lily |
| 4 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 5 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 6 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 7 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 8 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 9 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |