Where does “horseradishy” come from?
horseradishy (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.
horseradishy (English): Resembling or seasoned with horseradish
Definitions
- Resembling or seasoned with horseradish
Ancestry of “horseradishy”, step by step
horseradishy 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 horseradish
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | horseradish | A plant of the mustard family, "Armoracia... |
| 2 | English | radish | A plant of the Brassicaceae family, "Raphanus... |
| 3 | Middle English | radiche | Radish |
| 4 | Old English | redic | — |
| 5 | Latin | radice | ablative singular of rādīx |
| 6 | Latin | radix | A root; A radish; The lower part of an object;... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | wrād-ī- | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | wréh₂ds | root |