Where does “chiffony” come from?
chiffony (English) comes from English chiffon, from French chiffon, from French chiffe, from Middle French chiffe, from Old French chipe, from Middle English chip, from Old English ċipp, from Old English ċippian — to split; divide; germinate; sprout; to split;...
chiffony (English): Resembling or characteristic of chiffon material
Definitions
- Resembling or characteristic of chiffon material
Ancestry of “chiffony”, step by step
chiffony traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English chiffon
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | chiffon | A sheer silk or rayon fabric; Any purely... |
| 2 | French | chiffon | rag; scrap |
| 3 | French | chiffe | rag; drip |
| 4 | Middle French | chiffe | cloth, old rag |
| 5 | Old French | chipe | rag; bit, scrap |
| 6 | Middle English | chip | fragment, worthless thing; chip, shard, fragment |
| 7 | Old English | ċipp | chip; small piece of wood; chip, splinter,... |
| 8 | Old English | ċippian | to cut; hew |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | kipp- | to chop; split; to cut; carve; hack; chop |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵey- | to split; divide; germinate; sprout; to split;... |
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 | — |