Where does “higonokami” come from?
higonokami (English) comes from Japanese 肥後守, from Japanese 守, from Japanese 連用形, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.
higonokami (English): A Japanese folding pocketknife
Definitions
- A Japanese folding pocketknife
Ancestry of “higonokami”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Japanese | 肥後守 | A type of Japanese folding pocketknife |
| 2 | Japanese | 守 | a watchman, a keeper , a caretaker; a nursemaid,... |
| 3 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 4 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 5 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 6 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 7 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 8 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |