Where does “グリニッジ標準時” come from?
グリニッジ標準時 (Japanese) comes from Japanese グリニッジ, from English Greenwich, from Middle English Greenwich, from Old English Grēnawīċ, from Old English wīc, from German witz, from Middle High German witz, from Old High German wizzi — to see.
グリニッジ標準時 (Japanese): Greenwich Mean Time
Definitions
- Greenwich Mean Time
Ancestry of “グリニッジ標準時”, step by step
グリニッジ標準時 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese グリニッジ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | グリニッジ | Greenwich |
| 2 | English | Greenwich | The Greenwich meridian; the prime meridian |
| 3 | Middle English | Greenwich | — |
| 4 | Old English | Grēnawīċ | — |
| 5 | Old English | wīc | dwelling place, abode; abode, dwelling-place;... |
| 6 | German | witz | joke |
| 7 | Middle High German | witz | — |
| 8 | Old High German | wizzi | — |
| 9 | Proto-West Germanic | wītī | punishment |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | witją | knowledge; reason; sense; understanding; wit |
| 11 | Proto-Germanic | *witaną | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | wóyde | to have seen, to know |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | weyd- | to see |