Where does “ちかめ” come from?

ちかめ (Japanese) comes from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.

ちかめ (Japanese): nearsightedness

Definitions

  1. nearsightedness

Ancestry of “ちかめ”, step by step

ちかめ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 目

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese目an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger...
2Middle Chinese目—

via Japanese 近

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese近near; close; close; near
2Middle Chinese近—
Every word from Middle Chinese 目 →Every word from Japanese 目 →