Where does “lentilly” come from?
lentilly (English) comes from English lentil, from Middle English lentile, from Old French lentille, from Vulgar Latin lenticla, from Latin lenticula, from Latin -ella, from Latin -ellus, from Latin -ulus — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
lentilly (English): Resembling, containing, or characteristic of lentils
Definitions
- Resembling, containing, or characteristic of lentils
Ancestry of “lentilly”, step by step
lentilly traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English lentil
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | lentil | Any of several plants of the genus "Lens",... |
| 2 | Middle English | lentile | The seed of the lentil used as food |
| 3 | Old French | lentille | lentil |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | lenticla | — |
| 5 | Latin | lenticula | lentil |
| 6 | Latin | -ella | inflection of -ellus: ## nominative/vocative... |
| 7 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 8 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
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 | — |