Where does “doey” come from?

doey (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.

doey (English): Resembling or characteristic of a doe

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a doe

Ancestry of “doey”, step by step

doey traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English Y

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishYA figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y; A...
2EnglishyuriA narrative or visual work featuring a romance or...
3Japanese百合lily
4Japanese連用形an inflectional category: the continuative or...
5Japanese見るto see, to watch, to observe, to look at...
6Japanesea dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state...
7Old Japanesea dream
8Japanesean order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger...
9Middle Chinese

via English doe

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishdoeA female deer; also used of similar animals such...
2Old Frenchd’
3Old FrenchAlternative form of eu
4Vulgar Latinhabutusperfect participle of habeō
5Latinhabitusretained, maintained, having been maintained;...
6Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
7Proto-Italic-tus
8Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
Every word from Middle Chinese
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