Where does “rikiŝo” come from?

rikiŝo (Esperanto) comes from Japanese 力車, from Japanese 人力車, from Japanese 人, from Proto-Japonic *pitə — one.

rikiŝo (Esperanto): rickshaw

Definitions

  1. rickshaw

Ancestry of “rikiŝo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese力車a rickshaw
2Japanese人力車a rickshaw
3Japanese人a person, human; an individual; mankind, people
4Proto-Japonic*pitəone
Every word from Proto-Japonic *pitə →Every word from Japanese 人 →Every word from Japanese 人力車 →