Where does “milksoppy” come from?
milksoppy (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.
milksoppy (English): weak; timid; ineffectual
Definitions
- weak; timid; ineffectual
Ancestry of “milksoppy”, step by step
milksoppy 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 milksop
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | milksop | A piece of bread sopped in milk; Bread pieces in... |
| 2 | English | sop | Something entirely soaked; A piece of solid food... |
| 3 | Middle English | sop | small amount of food |
| 4 | Old French | sope | Alternative form of supe; soup |
| 5 | Latin | suppa | sopped bread |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | supô | soup, broth |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | sewH- | to bear; to give birth |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | sew- | to press out, extract; juice; liquid, rain; to... |