Noun: allergy
| Singular | allergy |
| Plural | allergies |
Sample Sentences
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My dad can't live with pets because of an allergy.
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He has an allergy to reality TV.
Nouns inflected like allergy
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos
4. Proto-Hellenic *áľľos
5. Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́λλος (ắllos)
6. Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
7. Proto-Indo-European *-om
8. Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
9. Proto-Graeco-Phrygian *wérgon
10. Proto-Hellenic *wérgon
11. Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon)
12. German Allergiebor.
13. English allergy
14. Borrowed from German Allergie. Coined by Austrian pediatrician Clemens von Pirquet in 1906 from Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos, “other”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work, activity”), on the model of Energie. See: German Nouns '
Allergie'.
Verbs referencing "allergy"
Spanish Nouns
alergia.