Where does “yuri” come from?
yuri (English) comes from Japanese 百合, from Japanese 連用形, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.
yuri (English): A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or...
Definitions
- A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or...
Ancestry of “yuri”, step by step
yuri traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese 百合
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 百合 | lily |
| 2 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 3 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 4 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 5 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 6 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 7 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |
via Russian Ю́рий
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian | Ю́рий | George; Jorge |
| 2 | Old East Slavic | Гюрги | — |
| 3 | Old East Slavic | Георгий | — |
via Japanese ゆり
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | ゆり | 百合, ユリ lily; 揺り tremor, shaking |