Word Origin Summary

-ig is attested in German. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. -ecMiddle High Germaninherited from
2. *-kosProto-Indo-Europeanderived from
3. *-gProto-West Germanicderived from
4. *-gazProto-West Germanicderived from
5. -igOld High Germaninherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• -ig

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• abbedverdighet

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

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