Where does “ippon” come from?

ippon (English) comes from Japanese 一本, from Japanese 一, from Japanese 始め, from Japanese 始める — begin; start; initiate; originate.

ippon (English): The highest score in judo, awarded for a throw...

Definitions

  1. The highest score in judo, awarded for a throw...

Ancestry of “ippon”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese一本one thing
2Japanese一one, 1; "term relating to the number one"; unity
3Japanese始めbeginning, the start of an activity or time...
4Japanese始めるbegin; start; initiate; originate
Every word from Japanese 始める →Every word from Japanese 始め →Every word from Japanese 一 →