Where does “slantily” come from?

slantily (English) comes from English slanty, 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.

slantily (English): In a slanty manner

Definitions

  1. In a slanty manner

Ancestry of “slantily”, step by step

slantily traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English slanty

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishslantyslanted
2EnglishYA figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y; A...
3EnglishyuriA narrative or visual work featuring a romance or...
4Japanese百合lily
5Japanese連用形an inflectional category: the continuative or...
6Japanese見るto see, to watch, to observe, to look at...
7Japanesea dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state...
8Old Japanesea dream
9Japanesean order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger...
10Middle Chinese

via English ly

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishlyAbbreviation of light-year
2VietnameselyAlternative spelling of li
Every word from Middle Chinese
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