Where does “lathy” come from?

lathy (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.

lathy (English): Like a lath; long and slender

Definitions

  1. Like a lath; long and slender

Ancestry of “lathy”, step by step

lathy 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 lath

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishlathA thin, narrow strip, fastened to the rafters,...
2Middle Englishlaþþe
3Old Englishlættlath
4Proto-Germaniclaþþōboard; plank; ledge
5Proto-Indo-European(s)lat-beam; log
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