Where does “रिक्शा” come from?

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

रिक्शा (Hindi): rickshaw two-wheeled carriage

Definitions

  1. rickshaw two-wheeled carriage

Ancestry of “रिक्शा”, 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

Words derived from “रिक्शा”

Every word from Proto-Japonic *pitə →Every word from Japanese 人 →Every word from Japanese 人力車 →