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Where does “-ty” come from?

-ty (Middle English) comes from Old English -tiġ, from Proto-Germanic tigiwiz, from Proto-Germanic *teguz.

Ancestry of “-ty”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old English-tiġ-ty
2Proto-Germanictigiwiznominative/vocative plural of *teguz
3Proto-Germanic*teguz—

Words derived from “-ty”

  • motility
  • personalty
  • dysmotility
  • hypomotility
  • teenty
  • antimotility
  • electromotility
  • hypermotility
  • promotility
  • eleventy
  • immotility
  • seneschalty
  • officialty
  • nonmotility
  • squiralty
  • -ty
  • twelfty
  • millionty
  • mulierty
Every word from Proto-Germanic *teguz →