Where does “お菓子” come from?

お菓子 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 御, from Middle Chinese 御.

お菓子 (Japanese): sweet, confection; candy; pastry, cake, cookie

Definitions

  1. sweet, confection; candy; pastry, cake, cookie

Ancestry of “お菓子”, step by step

お菓子 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 御

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese御"indicates that the is honorific"; often used to...
2Middle Chinese御—

via Japanese 菓子

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese菓子sweet, confection; candy; pastry, cake, cookie

Words derived from “お菓子”

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