Where does “samoerai” come from?
samoerai (Dutch) comes from Japanese 侍, from Japanese 連用形, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.
samoerai (Dutch): samurai
Ancestry of “samoerai”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Japanese | 侍 | a warrior class in medieval and pre-modern Japan;... |
| 2 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 3 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 4 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 5 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 6 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 7 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |