Where does “eggplanty” come from?
eggplanty (English) comes from English eggplant, from English plant, from Middle English plante, from Old English plante, from Proto-West Germanic *plantu, from Latin planta, from Proto-Italic plāntā, from Proto-Indo-European pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂ — flat.
eggplanty (English): Resembling or characteristic of eggplant
Definitions
- Resembling or characteristic of eggplant
Ancestry of “eggplanty”, step by step
eggplanty traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English eggplant
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | eggplant | The plant "Solanum melongena"; The edible fruit... |
| 2 | English | plant | An organism that is not an animal, especially an... |
| 3 | Middle English | plante | — |
| 4 | Old English | plante | plant, shoot |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | *plantu | plant, shoot |
| 6 | Latin | planta | any vegetable production that serves to propagate... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | plāntā | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂ | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pleh₂- | flat |
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 | — |