Where does “fortysomething” come from?
fortysomething (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.
fortysomething (English): An indeterminate value between 40 (inclusive) and 50 (exclusive)
Definitions
- An indeterminate value between 40 (inclusive) and 50 (exclusive)
Ancestry of “fortysomething”, step by step
| 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 | — |