Where does “romusha” come from?

romusha (Dutch) comes from Japanese 労務者, from Japanese 者, from Middle Chinese 者.

romusha (Dutch): a romusha; an Indonesian or Dutch East Indian subject who had to perform penal servitude for the Japanese during the Second World War

Definitions

  1. a romusha; an Indonesian or Dutch East Indian subject who had to perform penal servitude for the Japanese during the Second World War

Ancestry of “romusha”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese労務者A laborer, a workman, one who does manual labor
2Japanese者person; someone of that type, someone who does...
3Middle Chinese者—
Every word from Middle Chinese 者 →Every word from Japanese 者 →Every word from Japanese 労務者 →