Where does “crispen” come from?
crispen (English) comes from English crisp, 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.
crispen (English): To make crisp; To become crisp
Definitions
- To make crisp; To become crisp
Ancestry of “crispen”, step by step
crispen traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English crisp
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | crisp | Sharp, clearly defined; Brittle; friable; in a... |
| 2 | English | Y | A figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y; A... |
| 3 | English | yuri | A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or... |
| 4 | Japanese | 百合 | lily |
| 5 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 6 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 7 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 8 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 9 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 10 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |
via Middle English crispen
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | crispen | To curl; to have curls |
| 2 | Latin | crispo | I curl, crimp; I make rough or variegated; strew... |
| 3 | Latin | -ō | suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |