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...
6French-épast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
7Middle French-épast participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n
8Old French-éused to form past participles of regular -er...
9Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
10Proto-Italic-āForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
11Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—

via Japanese 酸

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese酸sourness; acid; Alternative spelling of 酢
2Middle Chinese酸—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →Every word from English -ine →Every word from French -ine →