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Where does “-tiġ” come from?

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

-tiġ (Old English): -ty

Definitions

  1. -ty

Ancestry of “-tiġ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanictigiwiznominative/vocative plural of *teguz
2Proto-Germanic*teguz—

Words derived from “-tiġ”

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