Etymograph

English

Floyd

Floyd comes from Welsh llwyd ‘grey, grey-haired’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *pelh₁- ‘pale’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pelh₁-‘pale’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Celticc. 1300–800 BCE*ɸleitos‘grey’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Brythonicc. 100 BCE–500 CE*lluɨd‘grey’reconstructed
  4. Welshc. 1500–presentllwyd‘grey, grey-haired’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2013Floyd

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pelh₁-‘pale’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Celticc. 1300–800 BCE*ɸleitos‘grey’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Brythonicc. 100 BCE–500 CE*lluɨd‘grey’reconstructed
  4. Welshc. 1500–presentllwyd‘grey, grey-haired’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2013Floyd

Earliest quotation: 2013, Carol Cratty and Michael Pearson, DC shooter wanted to kill as many as possible, prosecutors s: “After years of thinking it over, Floyd Corkins finally…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *pelh₁- ‘pale’

polite, pallet, 7 more

Today it means

name A surname from Welsh, variant of Lloyd

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *pelh₁- / Floyd

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