Where does “traylike” come from?

traylike (English) comes from English tray, from English trans, from English transgender, from English gender, from Middle English gender, from Middle French gendre, from Latin genus, from Proto-Italic genos — to produce, to beget, to give birth.

traylike (English): Resembling or characteristic of a tray

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a tray

Ancestry of “traylike”, step by step

traylike traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English tray

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishtrayA small, typically rectangular or round, flat,...
2EnglishtransIn a double bond in which the greater radical on...
3EnglishtransgenderHaving a gender which is different from the sex...
4Englishgenderkind
5Middle Englishgender
6Middle Frenchgendre
7Latingenusbirth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,...
8Proto-Italicgenoslineage, origin
9Proto-Indo-Europeanǵénh₁osrace, lineage
10Proto-Indo-Europeanǵenh₁-to produce, to beget, to give birth

via English like

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishlikeTo enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of;...
2Dutchluikhatch; shutter; panel, as in a triptych
3Middle Dutchluke
4Dutchluikento close, to shut
5Middle Dutchlukento close, to shut; to close, to become closed
6Old Dutchlūcanto close, shut
7Proto-West Germaniclūkanto close, to shut
8Proto-Germaniclūkanąto close, to shut; Alternative form of *leukaną
9Proto-Indo-Europeanlewǵ-to break, tear; to break, shatter
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵenh₁-