Where does “roddy” come from?
roddy (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.
roddy (English): Full of rods or twigs; Obsolete form of ruddy
Definitions
- Full of rods or twigs; Obsolete form of ruddy
Ancestry of “roddy”, step by step
roddy traces back through 3 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 rod
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | rod | A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or... |
| 2 | English | Rodney | A small Newfoundland wooden boat typically used by one person |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | awjō | floodplain; meadow; island |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | agwjō | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂ékʷeh₂ | water |
via Irish Ó Rodaigh
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Irish | Ó Rodaigh | — |