Where does “ornithonymy” come from?

ornithonymy (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.

ornithonymy (English): The naming of birds; the creation of common names for birds; the use of bird names

Definitions

  1. The naming of birds; the creation of common names for birds; the use of bird names

Ancestry of “ornithonymy”, step by step

ornithonymy 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...
6Japanese夢a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state...
7Old Japanese夢a dream
8Japanese目an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger...
9Middle Chinese目—

via English ornithonym

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishornithonymThe common name of a bird
2English-onymname; word
3Ancient GreekὄνυμαDoric and Aeolic form of ὄνομᾰ
4Ancient Greekὄνομαname; fame; noun, in the wide sense: referring to...
5Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁nómn̥name
6Proto-Indo-Europeanh₃neh₃-to name
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