Where does “meatloafy” come from?
meatloafy (English) comes from English meatloaf, from English meat, from Middle English mete, from Middle English bake mete, from Middle English baken, from Old English bacan, from Proto-West Germanic bakan, from Proto-Germanic bakaną — to bake, to roast, to fry.
meatloafy (English): Resembling or characteristic of meatloaf
Definitions
- Resembling or characteristic of meatloaf
Ancestry of “meatloafy”, step by step
meatloafy traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English meatloaf
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | meatloaf | A dish of ground meat formed into a loaf shape,... |
| 2 | English | meat | The flesh of an animal used as food; A type of... |
| 3 | Middle English | mete | Food, nourishment or comestibles; that which is... |
| 4 | Middle English | bake mete | Any kind of cooked food which has a pastry... |
| 5 | Middle English | baken | To bake; to cook in an oven; usually used of... |
| 6 | Old English | bacan | to bake |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | bakan | to bake |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | bakaną | to bake |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰeh₃g- | to bake, to roast, to fry |
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 | — |