The story
- Old English · inherited fromwordiġ“wordy, verbose”
- Middle English · inherited fromwordy
- English todaywordy
From Middle English wordy, woordi, from Old English wordiġ (“wordy, verbose”), equivalent to word + -y. Cognate with Icelandic orðigur (“wordy”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.