Where does “steampunky” come from?
steampunky (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.
steampunky (English): Reminiscent of the steampunk genre
Definitions
- Reminiscent of the steampunk genre
Ancestry of “steampunky”, step by step
steampunky 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 steampunk
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | steampunk | A subgenre of science fiction that depicts... |
| 2 | English | steam | The vapor formed when water changes from liquid... |
| 3 | Middle English | steem | — |
| 4 | Old English | stēam | steam, hot exhalation, hot breath; that which... |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | staumaz | steam, vapour |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰew- | to die, pass away; to run, flow |