Where does “stovies” come from?
stovies (English) comes from English tatties, from English tatty, from English Y, from English yuri, from Japanese 百合, from Japanese 連用形, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢.
stovies (English): A traditional Scottish dish of stewed potatoes...
Definitions
- A traditional Scottish dish of stewed potatoes...
Ancestry of “stovies”, step by step
stovies traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English tatties
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | tatties | plural of tatty; potatoes |
| 2 | English | tatty | potato; Tattered; dilapidated, distressed,... |
| 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 English stoved
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | stoved | simple past tense and past participle of stove |