Where does “blechy” come from?
blechy (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.
blechy (English): Disgusting
Definitions
- Disgusting
Ancestry of “blechy”, step by step
blechy traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Y
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 | — |
via English blech
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | blech | An imitation of the sound of gagging, used to... |
| 2 | Yiddish | בלעך | tin; sheet metal, tin sheet; blech |
| 3 | Middle High German | blëch | small metal plate; ornament on a woman's dress |
| 4 | Old High German | bleh | thin leaf of metal, plate; metal plate |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | *blik | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | bliką | shine; look; metal |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleyǵ- | to shine |