Where does “Tony crony” come from?
Tony crony (English) comes from English Tony, 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.
Tony crony (English): An ingratiating political associate of the former...
Definitions
- An ingratiating political associate of the former...
Ancestry of “Tony crony”, step by step
Tony crony traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Tony
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Tony | Any of the statuettes awarded by the American... |
| 2 | English | Y | A figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y; A... |
| 3 | English | yuri | A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or... |
| 4 | Japanese | 百合 | lily |
| 5 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 6 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 7 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 8 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 9 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 10 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |