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 — to sound, resound.

索尼 (Chinese): Sony

Definitions

  1. Sony

Ancestry of “索尼”, step by step

索尼 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese ソニー

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1JapaneseソニーSony
2EnglishSonyAn international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan
3Latinsonussound, noise; pitch; speech; tone, character,...
4Latinsonōto sound, resound, make a sound or noise (and various sounds in-context)
5Proto-Italic*swonaōto sound, resound

via Manchu ᠰᠣᠨᡳᠨ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Manchuᠰᠣᠨᡳᠨ—
Every word from Proto-Italic *swonaō →Every word from Latin sonō →Every word from Latin sonus →
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