Etymology

twiggy

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Today it means: Having many twigs. Full definition →

English twig ← Middle English twig ← Old English twiġ
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dwi-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*dwigʰom
  4. Proto-Germanic*twīgą
  5. Proto-West Germanic*twīg
  6. Old Englishtwiġ
  7. Middle Englishtwig
  8. Englishtwig
  9. English todaytwiggy

From twig + -y.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.