Where does “fangy” come from?
fangy (English) comes from English Fang, from English fangtooth, from Middle English fangtooth, from Old English fengtōþ, from Old English fōn, from Old Norse fanga, from Middle Low German vangen, from Proto-Germanic fangōną — he, she.
fangy (English): Containing fangs; full of sharp teeth
Definitions
- Containing fangs; full of sharp teeth
Ancestry of “fangy”, step by step
fangy traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Fang
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Fang | A people of western Africa |
| 2 | English | fangtooth | A beryciform fish of the monotypic family... |
| 3 | Middle English | fangtooth | fang, canine |
| 4 | Old English | fengtōþ | canine tooth |
| 5 | Old English | fōn | to take, grasp, seize, catch, capture, make... |
| 6 | Old Norse | fanga | to fetch, capture |
| 7 | Middle Low German | vangen | captive; to catch |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | fangōną | to catch, capture |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | -ōną | Creates denominative verbs from nouns; Creates... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 13 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
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 | — |