Where does “booksy” come from?
booksy (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.
booksy (English): Pertaining to books; Inclined to read books;...
Definitions
- Pertaining to books; Inclined to read books;...
Ancestry of “booksy”, step by step
booksy 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 books
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | books | plural of book; Accounting records; Third-person... |
| 2 | English | book | A collection of sheets of paper bound together to... |
| 3 | Middle English | booke | book; Alternative form of bouk |
| 4 | Old English | bōc | beech; book |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | bōk | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | bakaną | to bake |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰeh₃g- | to bake, to roast, to fry |