Etymology

biscuity

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Today it means: Resembling or characteristic of a biscuit. Full definition →

English biscuit ← Middle English bisquyte ← Old French bescuit
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
  2. Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
  3. Proto-Indo-European*dwís
  4. Proto-Italic*dwis
  5. Old Latinduis
  6. Latinbis
  7. Proto-Indo-European*pekʷ-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*pékʷeti
  9. Proto-Italic*kʷekʷō
  10. Latin*quoquō
  11. Latincoquō
  12. Latincoctus
  13. Early Medieval Latinbiscoctus
  14. Old Frenchbescuit
  15. Middle Englishbisquyte
  16. Englishbiscuit
  17. English todaybiscuity

From biscuit + -y.

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