Where does “索尼” come from?
索尼 (Chinese) comes from Japanese ソニー, from English Sony, from Latin sonus, from Latin sonō, from Proto-Italic *swonaō.
Ancestry of “索尼”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Japanese | ソニー | — |
| 2 | English | Sony | — |
| 3 | Latin | sonus | sound, noise; pitch; speech; tone, character,... |
| 4 | Latin | sonō | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | *swonaō | — |