Where does “scabies” come from?
scabies (Middle English) comes from Latin scabiēs, from Latin -ies, from Proto-Indo-European -yḗh₂s.
Ancestry of “scabies”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | scabiēs | — |
| 2 | Latin | -ies | Used to form an abstract noun, usually from an... |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | -yḗh₂s | — |
Words derived from “scabies”