Where does “Samuraischwert” come from?
Samuraischwert (German) comes from German Samurai, 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.
Samuraischwert (German): samurai sword, katana
Definitions
- samurai sword, katana
Ancestry of “Samuraischwert”, step by step
Samuraischwert traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Samurai
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Samurai | samurai |
| 2 | Japanese | 侍 | a warrior class in medieval and pre-modern Japan;... |
| 3 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 4 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 5 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 6 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 7 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 8 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |