Where does “jolty” come from?
jolty (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.
jolty (English): Characterised by jolts; bumpy or jerky
Definitions
- Characterised by jolts; bumpy or jerky
Ancestry of “jolty”, step by step
jolty 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 jolt
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | jolt | To push or shake abruptly and roughly; To knock... |
| 2 | English | -t | Forms the past tense and/or past participle of... |
| 3 | Middle English | -t | Forms the past tense and past participle of certain weak verbs |
| 4 | Old English | -t | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -þiz | Forms abstract nouns from verb roots, usually... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tis | Derives abstract/action nouns from verb roots |