Etymology

drifty

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Today it means: Tending or seeming to drift. Full definition →

English drift ← Middle English drift ← Old English *drift
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*drībaną
  2. Proto-Germanic*driftiz
  3. Old English*drift
  4. Middle Englishdrift
  5. Englishdrift
  6. English todaydrifty

From drift + -y.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.