Where does “Y-fronted” come from?
Y-fronted (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.
Y-fronted (English): Having a Y-shaped seam, as Y-fronts do; Wearing...
Definitions
- Having a Y-shaped seam, as Y-fronts do; Wearing...
Ancestry of “Y-fronted”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | Y | A figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y; A... |
| 2 | English | yuri | A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or... |
| 3 | Japanese | 百合 | lily; a style of 襲の色目 , featuring a red outer... |
| 4 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 5 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 6 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 7 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 8 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 9 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |