Where does “groany” come from?
groany (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.
groany (English): Tending to groan
Definitions
- Tending to groan
Ancestry of “groany”, step by step
groany traces back through two 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 groan
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | groan | A low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief; A... |
| 2 | Middle English | gronen | To groan; to make a groaning or moaning sound; To... |
| 3 | Old English | grānian | to groan; lament; murmur; to groan |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | *grainōn | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | grainōną | to howl; weep |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | grīnaną | to snarl, show teeth, grin; to flash, give light |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰer- | to yearn for; to enclose; bowels, intestines |