-worthy

English

suffixes
Definitions
  • Of sufficient worth for; deserving of.
  • Suitable or safe for; capable of enduring or able to bear; able to withstand.
  • Able to be; fit to be; -able.
  • Having the right, power, permission, or freedom to.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English -wurthe (-able) inherited from Old English -wierþe (-able) inherited from Proto-Germanic *wirþijaz (worthy, worth) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (turn, rotate, wind, spin, twist, become, bend, turn out).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*wert-

Gloss

turn, rotate, wind, spin, twist, become, bend, turn out

Concept
Semantic Field

Motion

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

風

Emoji
🙃

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