Where does “makurakotoba” come from?

makurakotoba (English) comes from Japanese 枕詞, from Japanese 詞, from Japanese 自動詞, from Japanese 自動 — automatic movement, automatic functioning;...

makurakotoba (English): A pillow word

Definitions

  1. A pillow word

Ancestry of “makurakotoba”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese枕詞a pillow word, an epithet, specifically a poetic...
2Japanese詞word; word; part of speech
3Japanese自動詞intransitive verb
4Japanese自動automatic movement, automatic functioning;...
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