easy
English
/ˈiːzi/, /ˈizi/
adj
Definitions
- (now) Comfortable; at ease.
- Requiring little skill or effort.
- Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
- Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
- (informal) Consenting readily to sex.
- Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
- (finance) Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight (tight).
Etymology
Derived from Middle English eesy, ese (ease) suffix from English ease derived from Old French aisié (at ease, at leisure, eased) derived from Middle English ethe (easy) derived from Old English īeþe (easy) derived from Proto-Germanic *auþuz derived from Proto-Indo-European *aut- (empty, lonely).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*aut-
Gloss
empty, lonely
Concept
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- disease English
- ease English
- easeful English
- easeless English
- easen English
- easer English
- easesome English
- easest English
- easeth English
- easify English
- easily English
- easiness English
- easycore English
- easygoing English
- easygoingness English
- easyish English
- eath English
- going English
- heartsease English
- overeasy English
- speak English
- speakeasy English
- speakeasylike English
- unease English
- uneasily English
- uneasiness English
- uneasy English
- iisi Finnish
- iisisti Finnish
- Öde German
- öde German
- *aut- Proto-Indo-European
- øde Norwegian Bokmål
- *audaz Proto-Germanic
- *auþijaz Proto-Germanic
- *auþuz Proto-Germanic
- Öda Swedish
- aud Norwegian Nynorsk
- eaþe Old English
- essian Old English
- ēaþe, eaþe Old English
- īeþe Old English
- eesy Middle English
- eise Middle English
- ese Middle English
- esiliche Middle English
- esy Middle English
- ethe Middle English
- unesy Middle English
- auðigr Old Norse
- auðr Old Norse
- øde Danish
- aisié Old French
- auður Icelandic
- odelijc Middle Dutch
- ootmoet Middle Dutch
- ōdi Old High German
- eyður Faroese
- isi Faroese
- aîsi Norman
- aîthi Norman
- öde Middle High German
- *auþī gmw-pro
- øþe, ø̄þe Old Swedish
- øþkn Old Swedish
- ø̄þe Old Swedish
- ese xno