Where does “flabbiness” come from?
flabbiness (English) comes from English flabby, from English flappy, from English Y, from English yuri, from Japanese 百合, from Japanese 連用形, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢.
flabbiness (English): The characteristic or quality of being flabby
Definitions
- The characteristic or quality of being flabby
Ancestry of “flabbiness”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | flabby | Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or... |
| 2 | English | flappy | that flaps |
| 3 | English | Y | A figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y; A... |
| 4 | English | yuri | A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or... |
| 5 | Japanese | 百合 | lily; a style of 襲の色目 , featuring a red outer... |
| 6 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 7 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 8 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 9 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 10 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 11 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |