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

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinscabiēsroughness, scurf
2Latin-iesUsed to form an abstract noun, usually from an...
3Proto-Indo-European-yḗh₂s—

Words derived from “scabies”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yḗh₂s →Every word from Latin -ies →Every word from Latin scabiēs →