Etymology

heightism

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Today it means: A prejudiced attitude about human height that often results in discrimination, based on the belief that unusually short or tall people are inferior and undesirable. Full definition →

English height ← Middle English heighte ← Old English hīehþu
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*kewk-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*kówkos
  3. Proto-Germanic*hauhaz
  4. Proto-Germanic*hauhiþō
  5. Proto-West Germanic*hauhiþu
  6. Old Englishhīehþu
  7. Middle Englishheighte
  8. Englishheight
  9. English todayheightism

From height + -ism.

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