Where does “scanties” come from?
scanties (English) comes from English scanty, 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.
scanties (English): Small panties; skimpy underwear for a woman or...
Definitions
- Small panties; skimpy underwear for a woman or...
Ancestry of “scanties”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | scanty | Somewhat less than is needed in amplitude or... |
| 2 | English | Y | A figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y; A... |
| 3 | English | yuri | A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or... |
| 4 | Japanese | 百合 | lily; a style of 襲の色目 , featuring a red outer... |
| 5 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 6 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 7 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 8 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 9 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 10 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |