Where does “自動車” come from?

自動車 (Chinese) comes from Japanese 自動車, from Japanese 自動, from Japanese 自動詞, from Japanese 詞, from Middle Chinese 詞.

自動車 (Chinese): automobile; motor car

Definitions

  1. automobile; motor car

Ancestry of “自動車”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese自動車automobile, car, motorcar
2Japanese自動automatic movement, automatic functioning;...
3Japanese自動詞intransitive verb
4Japanese詞word; word; part of speech
5Middle Chinese詞—

Words derived from “自動車”

Every word from Middle Chinese 詞 →Every word from Japanese 自動 →Every word from Japanese 自動詞 →