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Results tagged with etymology
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語源. The study of the origin of words and the historical development of their meanings. Sometimes used for kanji as well; we currently don't have a separate tag for character origins.
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Where does the な in 大人 (otona) come from?
おとな is a Japanese word meaning big person...adult. When kanji came to Japan they took the characters 大 人 to represent their native word.
乙名 is a buddhist term..ie a Chinese loan word assigned a close …
