Where does “cȳ” come from?
cȳ (Old English) comes from Old English cū, from Proto-West Germanic *kō, from Proto-Germanic *kōz.
cȳ (Old English): cows
Ancestry of “cȳ”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old English | cū | cow |
| 2 | Proto-West Germanic | *kō | — |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | *kōz | — |