Where does “サウンドトラック” come from?
サウンドトラック (Japanese) comes from English soundtrack, from English track, from Middle English trak, from Old French trac, from Middle Dutch treck, from Old Dutch trecken, from Proto-West Germanic *trakkjan, from Proto-Germanic trakjaną — he, she.
サウンドトラック (Japanese): soundtrack
Ancestry of “サウンドトラック”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | soundtrack | A narrow strip running down a movie film that... |
| 2 | English | track | A mark left by something that has passed along; A... |
| 3 | Middle English | trak | — |
| 4 | Old French | trac | track of horses, trail, trace; track; a track,... |
| 5 | Middle Dutch | treck | — |
| 6 | Old Dutch | trecken | — |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | *trakkjan | — |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | trakjaną | to drag |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 12 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |