Where does “whiskered” come from?

Whiskered comes from Old English -od, from Proto-Germanic -ōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European -eh₂tos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -tós, a suffix forming adjectives from verbs.

whiskered (English): Possessed of whiskers; covered in bristles

Definitions

  1. Possessed of whiskers; covered in bristles

Ancestry of “whiskered”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-edUsed to form past tenses of verbs. In...
2Middle English-edAlternative form of -hede
3Old English-edformed into the likeness of, made into, shaped...

Words derived from “whiskered”

Every word from Old English -ed →Every word from English -ed →Every word from Middle English -ed →
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