Where does “flabbergastedly” come from?
flabbergastedly (English) comes from English flabbergasted, from English flabbergast, from English flabby, from English flappy, from English Y, from English yuri, from Japanese 百合, from Japanese 連用形.
flabbergastedly (English): in a flabbergasted manner
Definitions
- in a flabbergasted manner
Ancestry of “flabbergastedly”, step by step
flabbergastedly traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English flabbergasted
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | flabbergasted | Appalled, annoyed, exhausted or disgusted;... |
| 2 | English | flabbergast | To overwhelm with bewilderment; to amaze,... |
| 3 | English | flabby | Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or... |
| 4 | English | flappy | that flaps |
| 5 | English | Y | A figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y; A... |
| 6 | English | yuri | A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or... |
| 7 | Japanese | 百合 | lily |
| 8 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 9 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 10 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 11 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 12 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 13 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |