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The -y ending can also turn nouns into adjectives that describe a characteristic or quality.

Healthy comes from the noun health and means having or showing good health. Like sleepy, the -y changes the noun into an adjective. Other examples:

• wealth + y = wealthy (having a lot of wealth)

• cloud + y = cloudy (full of or covered with clouds)

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What does healthy imply?

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Unhealthy or harmful

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Healthy refers to good health, not being unhealthy or harmful.

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Promoting or indicative of good health

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Staying the same without changes

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Healthy relates to health, not to a lack of change.

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Feeling unwell or sick

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Healthy implies good health, not feeling unwell or sick.

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