Where does “オムライス” come from?
オムライス (Japanese) comes from Japanese オムレツ, from French omelette, from French alemette, from French alemelle, from Latin lāmella, from Latin -lus, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
オムライス (Japanese): omurice: an omelette filled with fried rice,...
Definitions
- omurice: an omelette filled with fried rice,...
Ancestry of “オムライス”, step by step
オムライス traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese オムレツ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | オムレツ | omelette |
| 2 | French | omelette | omelette |
| 3 | French | alemette | — |
| 4 | French | alemelle | knife blade |
| 5 | Latin | lāmella | A small, thin plate of metal |
| 6 | Latin | -lus | Alternative form of -ulus; diminutive suffix |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via Japanese ライス
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | ライス | rice, more specifically cooked rice |
| 2 | English | Rice | Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food |
| 3 | French | ris | reef; laughing, laugh; pleasures |
| 4 | Middle French | ris | — |
| 5 | Old French | ris | reef |
| 6 | Italian | riso | laughter, laugh; rice; past participle of ridere |
| 7 | Latin | rīsus | laughed at, ridiculed, mocked, having been ridiculed |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | ὄρυζα | rice |
| 9 | Proto-Iranian | *wrinǰiš | — |