Where does “yummies” come from?
yummies (English) comes from English yummy, from English -y, from Middle English -y, from Old English -iġ, from Proto-West Germanic -g, from Proto-Germanic -gaz, from Proto-Indo-European -ḱos — -y, -ic.
yummies (English): delicious foods
Definitions
- delicious foods
Ancestry of “yummies”, step by step
yummies traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English yummy
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | yummy | Delicious; Ellipsis of yummy mummy |
| 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 |
via English S
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | S | The ordinal number nineteenth, derived from this... |