Where does “kimono” come from?
kimono (Danish) comes from Japanese 着物, from Japanese 物, from Japanese 物言い, from Japanese 物言う — to talk.
kimono (Danish): kimono
Ancestry of “kimono”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 着物 | a kimono |
| 2 | Japanese | 物 | thing; story, genre |
| 3 | Japanese | 物言い | — |
| 4 | Japanese | 物言う | to talk |