Where does “roily” come from?

roily (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.

roily (English): muddy, cloudy; turbulent

Definitions

  1. muddy, cloudy; turbulent

Ancestry of “roily”, step by step

roily 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 roil

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishroilTo render turbid by stirring up the dregs or...
2Middle Frenchrouillerto rust
3Old Frenchrouilrust
4Vulgar Latinrobicula
5Latinrōbīgōrust
6Latinrōbusred
7Proto-Italicrouβos
8Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁rewdʰ-red
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