Where does “gorsy” come from?
gorsy (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.
gorsy (English): Where gorse grows
Definitions
- Where gorse grows
Ancestry of “gorsy”, step by step
gorsy traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via English Y
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Y | A figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y; A... |
| 2 | English | yuri | A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or... |
| 3 | Japanese | 百合 | lily |
| 4 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 5 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 6 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 7 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 8 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 9 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |
via English gorse
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | gorse | Evergreen shrub, of the genus "Ulex", having... |
| 2 | Middle English | gorst | Gorse or a similar plant; A area or place... |
| 3 | Old English | gorst | gorse |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | *gorst | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | gurstaz | — |
via Proto-Slavic gořьjь
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proto-Slavic | gořьjь | worse; comparative degree of *zъlъ |