Where does “Oekaki” come from?
Oekaki (English) comes from Japanese お絵かき, from Japanese 描く, from Japanese 書く, from Proto-Japonic kaku, from Kapampangan aku, from Proto-Philippine *aku, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian aku, from Proto-Austronesian aku.
Oekaki (English): A drawing-based message board system, sometimes allowing users to replay a stroke-by-stroke animation of the picture being drawn
Definitions
- A drawing-based message board system, sometimes allowing users to replay a stroke-by-stroke animation of the picture being drawn
Ancestry of “Oekaki”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | お絵かき | drawing; doodling |
| 2 | Japanese | 描く | to paint; to draw; to picture; to portray; to... |
| 3 | Japanese | 書く | to write; to record (words, figures) on the surface of (something) |
| 4 | Proto-Japonic | kaku | to scratch; to write |
| 5 | Kapampangan | aku | I; me; my |
| 6 | Proto-Philippine | *aku | — |
| 7 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | aku | — |
| 8 | Proto-Austronesian | aku | — |