English
grapey
Grapey comes from Middle English grapy.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500grapy
- Englishearliest quotation 1717grapey
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500grapy
- Englishearliest quotation 1717grapey
Earliest quotation: 1717, Joseph Addison: “The God we now behold with open'd eyes; A…”
Formed from grape + -y
Frankish *krappō ‘hook’
Old French graper ‘to pick grapes’
Old French grappe ‘cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes’
English grape
Every English word from Middle English grapy
Today it means
adj Resembling grapes.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English grapy / grapey