Where does “lamestreamer” come from?
lamestreamer (English) comes from English lamestream, from English mainstream, from English stream, from Middle English streem, from Middle English strem, from Old English strēam, from Proto-West Germanic straum, from Proto-Germanic straumaz — to flow; to guard; to bind, to tie together.
lamestreamer (English): A mainstreamer
Definitions
- A mainstreamer
Ancestry of “lamestreamer”, step by step
lamestreamer traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English lamestream
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | lamestream | Mainstream |
| 2 | English | mainstream | Used or accepted broadly rather than by small... |
| 3 | English | stream | A small river; a large creek; a body of moving... |
| 4 | Middle English | streem | Alternative form of strem |
| 5 | Middle English | strem | A waterbody; a region of the world containing... |
| 6 | Old English | strēam | current; stream |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | straum | stream |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | straumaz | stream, current, river |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | srowmos | river |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | srew- | to flow, stream |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ser- | to flow; to guard; to bind, to tie together |
via English ER
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ER | The statistic "Earned Run"; Initialism of... |
| 2 | Turkish | er | early; brave; man, male |
| 3 | Ottoman Turkish | ایر | saddle, a seat for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal |
| 4 | Old Anatolian Turkish | ایر | early, at a time in advance of the usual or expected event |
| 5 | Proto-Turkic | ēder | saddle |