Where does “Jeffy” come from?

Jeffy (English) comes from English Y, from English yuri, from Japanese 百合, from Japanese 連用形, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目.

Jeffy (English): A nickname for Jeff or Geoffrey

Definitions

  1. A nickname for Jeff or Geoffrey

Ancestry of “Jeffy”, step by step

Jeffy traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English Y

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishYA figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y; A...
2EnglishyuriA narrative or visual work featuring a romance or...
3Japanese百合lily
4Japanese連用形an inflectional category: the continuative or...
5Japanese見るto see, to watch, to observe, to look at...
6Japanese夢a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state...
7Old Japanese夢a dream
8Japanese目an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger...
9Middle Chinese目—

via English Jeff

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishJeffTo play or gamble with em quads, throwing them as dice
2EnglishJeffreythe usual U.S. spelling of Geoffrey. Popular in the latter half of the 20th century
3EnglishGeoffrey—
4Middle EnglishGeffreyGeoffrey
5Old FrenchGeoffroi—
6Medieval LatinJotfredus—
Every word from Middle Chinese 目 →Every word from Japanese 目 →Every word from Old Japanese 夢 →