English
spready
From spread + -y.
Formed from spread + -y
Proto-Germanic *sprīþaną ‘to break up, become scattered’
Proto-Germanic *spraidijaną ‘to spread’
Proto-West Germanic *spraidijan
Old English sprǣdan ‘to spread, expand’
Middle English spreden ‘to spread’
English spread
Today it means
adj Tending to spread horizontally.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / spready