Where does “forty leg” come from?
forty leg (Jamaican Creole) comes from English forty legs, from English forty, from English Y, from English yuri, from Japanese 百合, from Japanese 連用形, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢.
forty leg (Jamaican Creole): A centipede. A segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Definitions
- A centipede. A segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda
Ancestry of “forty leg”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | forty legs | A centipede |
| 2 | English | forty | The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine... |
| 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 | — |