Where does “forty-leven” come from?
forty-leven (English) comes from English forty, 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.
forty-leven (English): Very many; too many to count; quite a lot
Definitions
- Very many; too many to count; quite a lot
Ancestry of “forty-leven”, step by step
forty-leven traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English forty
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | forty | The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine... |
| 2 | English | Y | A figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y; A... |
| 3 | English | yuri | A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or... |
| 4 | Japanese | 百合 | lily |
| 5 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 6 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 7 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 8 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 9 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 10 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |