Where does “sprouty” come from?
sprouty (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.
sprouty (English): Having sprouts; Resembling or characteristic of...
Definitions
- Having sprouts; Resembling or characteristic of...
Ancestry of “sprouty”, step by step
sprouty traces back through two 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 sprout
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | sprout | A new growth on a plant, whether from seed or... |
| 2 | Dutch | spruit | A sprout, shoot, a branch-like part of a plant... |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | sprute | — |
| 4 | Old Dutch | sprūtan | to sprout, spring up |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | sprūtaną | Alternative form of *spreutaną |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | spreutaną | to sprout; to spring, come out |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | sprewd- | — |