Where does “すみ” come from?
すみ (Japanese) comes from Japanese み, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.
Ancestry of “すみ”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Japanese | み | 身 body; 実 fruit; nut; content; 霊, 神 spirit; god |
| 2 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 3 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 4 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 5 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 6 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |