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
- huge, big, severe, intense
Ancestry of “でかい”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Japanese | どいかい | — |
| 2 | Japanese | ど | super-; 度 degree, extent; 努 the third of the... |
| 3 | Japanese | と | with; and; a particle following a phrase or... |
| 4 | Old Japanese | と | — |
| 5 | Proto-Japonic | tə | place |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | tä | that |