Where does “warmongery” come from?
warmongery (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.
warmongery (English): The act of promoting, or inciting war-like,...
Definitions
- The act of promoting, or inciting war-like,...
Ancestry of “warmongery”, step by step
warmongery 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 warmonger
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | warmonger | Someone who advocates war; a militarist; To... |
| 2 | English | War | Preceded by [[the#Article |
| 3 | Middle English | werre | War in general; the practice of fighting between... |
| 4 | Old Norse | verri | comparative degree of illr, worse; worse |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | wirsizô | comparative degree of *ubilaz; worse |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | wers- | to wipe; peak, height |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | wer- | to burn; to cover, heed, notice; squirrel |