Where does “swoonily” come from?
swoonily (English) comes from English swoony, 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.
swoonily (English): In a swoony manner
Definitions
- In a swoony manner
Ancestry of “swoonily”, step by step
swoonily traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English swoony
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | swoony | Tending to swoon or faint |
| 2 | English | Y | A figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y; A... |
| 3 | English | yuri | A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or... |
| 4 | Japanese | 百合 | lily |
| 5 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 6 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 7 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 8 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 9 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 10 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |