Where does “sashimi” come from?
sashimi (Cebuano) comes from Japanese 刺身, from Japanese 身, from Japanese み, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.
sashimi (Cebuano): sashimi
Definitions
- sashimi
Ancestry of “sashimi”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 刺身 | sashimi, a dish of sliced raw fish or meat |
| 2 | Japanese | 身 | a body; a living body; a dead body, a corpse |
| 3 | Japanese | み | 身 body; 実 fruit; nut; content; 霊, 神 spirit; god |
| 4 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 5 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 6 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 7 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 8 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |