Where does “Napa” come from?

Napa (English) comes from Japanese 菜っ葉, from Japanese 葉, from Middle Chinese 葉.

Napa (English): Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis, a kind of Chinese cabbage

Definitions

  1. Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis, a kind of Chinese cabbage

Ancestry of “Napa”, step by step

Napa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 菜っ葉

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese菜っ葉leaves of any vegetable
2Japanese葉leaf, needle, blade; a season, an age: a shorter...
3Middle Chinese葉—

via Patwin napo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Patwinnapo—

Words derived from “Napa”

Every word from Middle Chinese 葉 →Every word from Japanese 葉 →Every word from Japanese 菜っ葉 →