English
fortyish
Fortyish comes from English forty.
- English1500–presentforty
- Englishearliest quotation 1993fortyish
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- English1500–presentforty
- Englishearliest quotation 1993fortyish
Earliest quotation: 1993, Quarterly bulletin of the Alpine Garden , Alpine Garden Society (Great Britain): “One problem it drops in our laps is to…”
A compound of forty + -ish
Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz
Proto-West Germanic *feuwar tigiwi
Old English fēowertiġ
Middle English fourty
English forty
Every English word from English forty
Today it means
adj Close to the number forty
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / English forty / fortyish