Where does “cȳ” come from?

cȳ (Old English) comes from Old English cū, from Proto-West Germanic *kō, from Proto-Germanic *kōz — cow.

cȳ (Old English): cows

Definitions

  1. cows

Ancestry of “cȳ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishcūcow
2Proto-West Germanic*kōcow
3Proto-Germanic*kōzcow

Words derived from “cȳ”

Every word from Proto-Germanic *kōz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic *kō →Every word from Old English cū →