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Where does “でかい” come from?

でかい (Japanese) comes from Japanese どいかい, from Japanese ど, from Japanese と, from Old Japanese と, from Proto-Japonic tə, from Proto-Uralic tä — that.

でかい (Japanese): huge, big, severe, intense

Definitions

  1. huge, big, severe, intense

Ancestry of “でかい”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japaneseどいかい—
2Japaneseどsuper-; 度 degree, extent; 努 the third of the...
3Japaneseとwith; and; a particle following a phrase or...
4Old Japaneseと—
5Proto-Japonictəplace
6Proto-Uralictäthat
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