Where does “flitty” come from?

flitty (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.

flitty (English): unstable, fluttering; Ostentatiously effeminate

Definitions

  1. unstable, fluttering; Ostentatiously effeminate

Ancestry of “flitty”, step by step

flitty traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English Y

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishYA figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y; A...
2EnglishyuriA narrative or visual work featuring a romance or...
3Japanese百合lily
4Japanese連用形an inflectional category: the continuative or...
5Japanese見るto see, to watch, to observe, to look at...
6Japanesea dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state...
7Old Japanesea dream
8Japanesean order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger...
9Middle Chinese

via English flit

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishflitA fluttering or darting movement; A particular,...
2Middle Englishflitten
3Old Norseflytjato move
4Proto-Germanicflutjanąto move, flutter
5Proto-Indo-Europeanplewd-to fly, flow, run
6Proto-Indo-Europeanplew-to fly, flow, run

Words derived from “flitty

Every word from Middle Chinese
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