Where does “カニクイイヌ” come from?
カニクイイヌ (Japanese) comes from Japanese 食い, from Japanese 鯎, from Japanese 鵜 — a cormorant.
カニクイイヌ (Japanese): a crab-eating fox
Ancestry of “カニクイイヌ”, step by step
カニクイイヌ traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese 食い
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 食い | eating, grubbing up; bite |
| 2 | Japanese | 鯎 | the Japanese dace, also known as the big-scaled... |
| 3 | Japanese | 鵜 | a cormorant |
via Japanese 犬
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 犬 | dog; canine; one who is loyal; a spy |
| 2 | Old Japanese | いぬ | — |
via Japanese 蟹
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 蟹 | a crab |
| 2 | Japanese | 殻 | shell, crust, chaff; husk, hull; cinders, ashes |