Etymology

babyface

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English face ← Middle English face ← Old French face
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰā-
  2. Proto-Germanic*bō-redup.
  3. Proto-Germanic*babô
  4. Proto-West Germanic*babō
  5. Old English*baba
  6. Middle Englishbabe
  7. Middle Englishbaby
  8. Englishbaby
  9. Latinfaciēs
  10. Late Latinfacia
  11. Old Frenchface
  12. Middle Englishface
  13. Englishface
  14. English todaybabyface

From baby + face.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.