Where does “indoorsy” come from?
indoorsy (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.
indoorsy (English): Favouring, or pertaining to, indoor life
Definitions
- Favouring, or pertaining to, indoor life
Ancestry of “indoorsy”, step by step
indoorsy 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 indoors
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | indoors | In or into a building; The interior of a... |
| 2 | English | doors | plural of door; Third-person singular simple... |
| 3 | English | door | A portal of entry into a building, room, or... |
| 4 | Middle English | dore | A door or gate structure barring an entrance |
| 5 | Old English | dora | bumblebee |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | durô | bumblebee, humming insect |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰer- | to support; to hold |