Where does “scabie” come from?

scabie (Old French) comes from Latin scabiēs, from Latin -ies, from Proto-Indo-European -yḗh₂s.

scabie (Old French): scabies

Definitions

  1. scabies

Ancestry of “scabie”, step by step

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