Where does “ウミユリ” come from?
ウミユリ (Japanese) 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.
ウミユリ (Japanese): sea lily, crinoid
Definitions
- sea lily, crinoid
Ancestry of “ウミユリ”, step by step
ウミユリ traces back through two 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 | — |