Where does “daikon” come from?

daikon (English) comes from Japanese 大根, from Japanese 大, from Old Japanese 大, from Proto-Japonic əpə — big, large; many.

daikon (English): An East Asian cultivar or subspecies of garden radish (Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, syn. Raphanus sativus) bearing a large, white, carrot-shaped taproot consumed throughout East and South Asia but grown in North America primarily as a fallow crop for its fast-growing leaves (used as animal

Definitions

  1. An East Asian cultivar or subspecies of garden radish (Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, syn. Raphanus sativus) bearing a large, white, carrot-shaped taproot consumed throughout East and South Asia but grown in North America primarily as a fallow crop for its fast-growing leaves (used as animal

Ancestry of “daikon”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese大根daikon, a large white variety of radish native to...
2Japanese大big, large; the large part of; arch-
3Old Japanese大big, large; large
4Proto-Japonicəpəbig, large; many

Words derived from “daikon”

Every word from Proto-Japonic əpə →Every word from Old Japanese 大 →Every word from Japanese 大 →