Where does “plovery” come from?
plovery (English) comes from English plover, from Old French plover, from Old French plovier, from Latin pluviārius, from Latin pluvia, from Latin pluvius, from Latin pluit, from Proto-Italic plowō.
plovery (English): Full of plovers
Definitions
- Full of plovers
Ancestry of “plovery”, step by step
plovery traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English plover
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | plover | Any of various wading birds of the family... |
| 2 | Old French | plover | Alternative form of plovoir |
| 3 | Old French | plovier | plover |
| 4 | Latin | pluviārius | — |
| 5 | Latin | pluvia | rain; a shower; feminine nominative singular of... |
| 6 | Latin | pluvius | rainy, bringing rain; The inner court of a... |
| 7 | Latin | pluit | It rains; it is raining |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | plowō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pléweti | — |
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 | — |