Where does “グルタミン酸” come from?

グルタミン酸 (Japanese) comes from Japanese グルタミン, from English glutamine, from English amine, from English -ine, from French -ine, from French -é, from Middle French -é, from Old French -é.

グルタミン酸 (Japanese): glutamic acid

Definitions

  1. glutamic acid

Ancestry of “グルタミン酸”, step by step

グルタミン酸 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese グルタミン

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japaneseグルタミンglutamine
2EnglishglutamineA nonessential amino acid CHNO found in most...
3EnglishamineA functional group formally derived from ammonia...
4English-ineOf or pertaining to; Used to form demonyms;...
5French-inefeminine singular of -in; female equivalent of...
6Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
7Middle Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n
8Old Frenchused to form past participles of regular -er...
9Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
10Proto-ItalicForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
11Proto-Indo-European-éh₂

via Japanese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanesesourness; acid; Alternative spelling of 酢
2Middle Chinese
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂