Where does “flannelly” come from?
flannelly (English) comes from English Y, from English yuri, from Japanese 百合, from Japanese 連用形, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目.
flannelly (English): Resembling or characteristic of flannel material
Definitions
- Resembling or characteristic of flannel material
Ancestry of “flannelly”, step by step
flannelly traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
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 | — |
via English flannel
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | flannel | A soft cloth material woven from wool, possibly... |
| 2 | Middle English | flaunneol | — |
| 3 | Old French | flanelle | — |
| 4 | Old French | flaine | — |
| 5 | Proto-Celtic | wlānos | — |
| 6 | Proto-Celtic | wlanā | wool |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂ | wool |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -nós | Creates verbal adjectives from roots |