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Where does “イギリス人” come from?

イギリス人 (Japanese) comes from Japanese イギリス, from Portuguese Inglês, from Old French angleis, from Old English Englisċ, from Old English -isċ, from Proto-West Germanic -isk, from Proto-Germanic -iskaz, from Proto-Indo-European -iskos — Characteristic of, typical of, pertaining to.

イギリス人 (Japanese): a Briton, a British person, a person from the...

Definitions

  1. a Briton, a British person, a person from the...

Ancestry of “イギリス人”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1JapaneseイギリスUK; Britain; England; Britain
2PortugueseInglês—
3Old Frenchangleis—
4Old EnglishEnglisċof the Angles; of the Angles; English
5Old English-isċ-ish
6Proto-West Germanic-iskCreates adjectives from nouns
7Proto-Germanic-iskazForms adjectives from nouns with the sense of...
8Proto-Indo-European-iskosCharacteristic of, typical of, pertaining to
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