Etymology

moony

moo·ny
M3O1O1N1Y4

Today it means: Resembling the Moon. Full definition →

English moon ← Middle English mone ← Old English mōna
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*med-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*meh₁-?
  3. Proto-Indo-European*mḗh₁n̥s
  4. Proto-Germanic*mēnô
  5. Proto-West Germanic*mānō
  6. Old Englishmōna
  7. Middle Englishmone
  8. Englishmoon
  9. English todaymoony

From moon + -y.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.