Where does “clompy” come from?
clompy (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.
clompy (English): Of a heavy kind that might make clomping noises;...
Definitions
- Of a heavy kind that might make clomping noises;...
Ancestry of “clompy”, step by step
clompy 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 clomp
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | clomp | The sound of feet hitting the ground loudly; To... |
| 2 | Dutch | klomp | A wooden shoe, clog; A mass, a nugget, a lump, a... |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | clompe | lump or mass of metal, wooden shoe, clump |
| 4 | Old Dutch | klumpo | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | klumpô | clasp; clamp; lump; mass; clump |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | glemb- | log, block |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | gel- | to be cold, to freeze |