Where does “diapery” come from?
diapery (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.
diapery (English): Fabric with a diaper pattern
Definitions
- Fabric with a diaper pattern
Ancestry of “diapery”, step by step
diapery traces back through 3 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 diaper
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | diaper | A textile fabric having a diamond-shaped pattern... |
| 2 | Middle English | dyaper | Fabric with repetitive patterns of shapes or... |
| 3 | Old French | dyapre | — |
| 4 | Latin | diaspra | — |
| 5 | Greek | δίασπρος | — |
via English ery
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ery | — |