Where does “fortyfold” come from?
fortyfold (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.
fortyfold (English): By a multiple of forty; by forty times as much or...
Definitions
- By a multiple of forty; by forty times as much or...
Ancestry of “fortyfold”, step by step
fortyfold 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 | — |