Where does “სამურაი” come from?
სამურაი (Georgian) comes from Japanese 侍, from Japanese 連用形, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.
სამურაი (Georgian): samurai
Ancestry of “სამურაი”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 侍 | a warrior class in medieval and pre-modern Japan;... |
| 2 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 3 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 4 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 5 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 6 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 7 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |