Where does “アスパラギン酸” come from?

アスパラギン酸 (Japanese) comes from Japanese アスパラギン, from English asparagine, from French asparagine, from French -ine, from French -é, from Middle French -é, from Old French -é, from Latin -a.

アスパラギン酸 (Japanese): aspartic acid

Definitions

  1. aspartic acid

Ancestry of “アスパラギン酸”, step by step

アスパラギン酸 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese アスパラギン

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japaneseアスパラギンasparagine
2EnglishasparagineA nonessential amino acid CHNO found in plants...
3Frenchasparagineasparagine
4French-inefeminine singular of -in; female equivalent of...
5French-épast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
6Middle French-épast participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n
7Old French-éused to form past participles of regular -er...
8Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
9Proto-Italic-āForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
10Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—

via Japanese 酸

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese酸sourness; acid; Alternative spelling of 酢
2Middle Chinese酸—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →Every word from French -ine →Every word from Latin -a →