Where does “jawy” come from?

jawy (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.

jawy (English): Relating to the jaws

Definitions

  1. Relating to the jaws

Ancestry of “jawy”, step by step

jawy 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 Jaw

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishJawOne of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth
2Middle Englishjowejaw, jawbone
3Old Frenchjoecheek
4Vulgar Latin*ga(v)ota
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