Where does “kneesy” come from?
kneesy (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.
kneesy (English): Amorous touching of each others knees
Definitions
- Amorous touching of each others knees
Ancestry of “kneesy”, step by step
kneesy 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 knees
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | knees | plural of knee; Third-person singular simple... |
| 2 | English | knee | In humans, the joint or the region of the joint... |
| 3 | Middle English | knē | The knee or a similar joint in other animals |
| 4 | Old English | cnēo | generation |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | kneu | knee |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | knewą | knee |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵnéwo- | knee |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵónu | knee |