Where does “ochery” come from?

ochery (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.

ochery (English): ocherous

Definitions

  1. ocherous

Ancestry of “ochery”, step by step

ochery 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 ocher

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishocherAlternative spelling of ochre
2EnglishochreAn earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and...
3Old Frenchocre
4Latinōchra
5Ancient Greekὤχραpale yellow; yellow ochre
6Ancient Greekὠχρόςpale, sallow, wan
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