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...
5Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
6Middle Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n
7Old Frenchused to form past participles of regular -er...
8Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
9Proto-ItalicForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
10Proto-Indo-European-éh₂

via Japanese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanesesourness; acid; Alternative spelling of 酢
2Middle Chinese
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂Every word from French -ineEvery word from Latin -a