Where does “百合” come from?

百合 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 連用形, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.

百合 (Japanese): lily

Definitions

  1. lily

Ancestry of “百合”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese連用形an inflectional category: the continuative or...
2Japanese見るto see, to watch, to observe, to look at...
3Japanesea dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state...
4Old Japanesea dream
5Japanesean order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger...
6Middle Chinese

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