Where does “いれずみ” come from?
いれずみ (Japanese) comes from Japanese すみ, from Japanese み, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.
いれずみ (Japanese): 入れ墨, 入墨, 刺青, 文身, 黥 a tattoo
Definitions
- 入れ墨, 入墨, 刺青, 文身, 黥 a tattoo
Ancestry of “いれずみ”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | すみ | charcoal |
| 2 | Japanese | み | 身 body; 実 fruit; nut; content; 霊, 神 spirit; god |
| 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 | — |