Where does “goaty” come from?

goaty (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.

goaty (English): Like a goat, goatlike or redolent of goats

Definitions

  1. Like a goat, goatlike or redolent of goats

Ancestry of “goaty”, step by step

goaty 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 goat

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishgoatA mammal, "Capra aegagrus hircus", and similar...
2EnglishTimeThe inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events
3Middle Englishtymethyme; time; A specific duration or period of...
4Old Frenchthym
5Latinthymumthyme; accusative singular of thymus
6Ancient Greekθύμονthyme
7Ancient GreekθύωI offer in sacrifice, slay, burn, immolate; I...
8Proto-Indo-Europeandʰewh₂-smoke; mist, haze

Words derived from “goaty

Every word from Middle Chinese
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