Etymology

countrified

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Today it means: Rural, rustic; unsophisticated. Full definition →

English countrify ← Middle English contre ← Old French contree
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  3. Proto-Italic*kom
  4. Proto-Italic*kom-
  5. Proto-Italic*komteros
  6. Proto-Italic*komterād
  7. Latincontrā
  8. Vulgar Latin*(terra) contrāta
  9. Old Frenchcontree
  10. Middle Englishcontre
  11. Englishcountry
  12. Englishcountrify
  13. English todaycountrified

From countrify + -ed.

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