Where does “flaily” come from?
flaily (English) comes from English flail, from Middle English flayle, from Old English fligel, from Old English flegel, from Proto-Germanic *flagil, from Latin flagellum, from Latin -lus, from Proto-Italic -elos — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
flaily (English): Acting like a flail
Definitions
- Acting like a flail
Ancestry of “flaily”, step by step
flaily traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English flail
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | flail | A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long... |
| 2 | Middle English | flayle | — |
| 3 | Old English | fligel | flail, whip |
| 4 | Old English | flegel | flail |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | *flagil | — |
| 6 | Latin | flagellum | whip, lash, scourge; whip for driving animals;... |
| 7 | Latin | -lus | Alternative form of -ulus; diminutive suffix |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
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 | — |