Etymology

untomboyish

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Today it means: Not tomboyish. Full definition →

English tomboyish ← Middle English boye ← Old English *bōia
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Aramaicתאמא
  9. Aramaicתאומא (təʾōmā)
  10. Ancient GreekΘωμᾶς (Thōmâs)
  11. LatinThōmās
  12. Middle EnglishThomas
  13. Middle EnglishThomme
  14. EnglishTom
  15. Englishtom
  16. Proto-Indo-European*bʰā-
  17. Proto-Germanic*bō-
  18. Proto-West Germanic*bōjō
  19. Old English*bōia
  20. Middle Englishboye
  21. Englishboy
  22. Englishtomboy
  23. Englishtomboyish
  24. English todayuntomboyish

From un- + tomboyish.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.