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.
The origin of words and the historical development of their meanings.
Related tags
- history
For questions about the historical development not of a particular word, but of some other aspect of the Japanese language.
See also
- gogen-allguide.com (Japanese), a website with etymologies of Japanese word and expressions
