plenty

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*pl̥h₁nós“full”
2. Latin · derived fromplēnitātem
3. Old French · derived fromplenté
4. Anglo-Norman · derived fromplenté
5. Middle English · inherited fromplentie
6. English todayplenty

From Anglo-Norman plent(é) + -y, from Middle English plentie, plentee, plente, from Anglo-Norman plenté, from Old French plenté, from Latin plēnitātem, accusative of plēnitās (“fullness”), from plenus (“complete, full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”), from which English full also comes, via Proto-Germanic. Related to the Latin derivatives replenish, plenary, complete, deplete, replete.

Words from the same roots