English
flaxy
From flax + -y.
Formed from flax + -y
Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- ‘to plait’
Proto-Germanic *flahsą
Proto-West Germanic *flahs
Old English fleax ‘linen, flax’
Middle English flax ‘Flax or its fibres’
English flax
Today it means
adj Like flax; flaxen.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / flaxy