Where does “stoniness” come from?
stoniness (English) comes from English stony, from English Tony, from English Y, from English yuri, from Japanese 百合, from Japanese 連用形, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢.
stoniness (English): The state or quality of being stony
Definitions
- The state or quality of being stony
Ancestry of “stoniness”, step by step
stoniness traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English stony
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | stony | As hard as stone; Containing or made up of... |
| 2 | English | Tony | Any of the statuettes awarded by the American... |
| 3 | English | Y | A figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y; A... |
| 4 | English | yuri | A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or... |
| 5 | Japanese | 百合 | lily |
| 6 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 7 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 8 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 9 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 10 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 11 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |
via Middle English stonines
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | stonines | — |