Where does “rompy” come from?
rompy (English) comes from English romp, from English ramp, from French rampe, from French ramper, from Middle French ramper, from Old French ramper, from Frankish rampōn, from Frankish rampa — to cut, cut off, sever.
rompy (English): Tending to romp; playfully adventurous
Definitions
- Tending to romp; playfully adventurous
Ancestry of “rompy”, step by step
rompy traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English romp
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | romp | To play about roughly, energetically or... |
| 2 | English | ramp | An inclined surface that connects two levels; an... |
| 3 | French | rampe | ramp |
| 4 | French | ramper | to crawl, worm (along); to creep |
| 5 | Middle French | ramper | to crawl |
| 6 | Old French | ramper | to climb; to ascend; to go up |
| 7 | Frankish | rampōn | — |
| 8 | Frankish | rampa | — |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | hrempaną | to bend, curve, make waves, wrinkle; to curve,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kreb- | to turn; to touch; to turn, bend, shrink, rotate,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)ker- | to cut off; to turn, bend |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | sek- | to cut, cut off, sever |
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 | — |