Where does “mebos” come from?
mebos (English) comes from Dutch mebos, from English umeboshi, from Japanese 梅干, from Japanese 梅干し, from Japanese 梅, from Old Japanese 梅, from Middle Chinese 梅.
mebos (English): A type of sweet snack food consisting of dried...
Definitions
- A type of sweet snack food consisting of dried...
Ancestry of “mebos”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Dutch | mebos | — |
| 2 | English | umeboshi | Pickled ume fruits |
| 3 | Japanese | 梅干 | Alternative spelling of 梅干し: a Japanese pickled... |
| 4 | Japanese | 梅干し | umeboshi: salt-dried or pickled Japanese ume ;... |
| 5 | Japanese | 梅 | the Japanese plum or apricot, "Prunus mume"; a... |
| 6 | Old Japanese | 梅 | — |
| 7 | Middle Chinese | 梅 | — |