Where does “ソニー” come from?

ソニー (Japanese) comes from English Sony, from Latin sonus, from Latin sonō, from Proto-Italic *swonaō — to sound, resound.

ソニー (Japanese): Sony

Definitions

  1. Sony

Ancestry of “ソニー”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishSonyAn international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan
2Latinsonussound, noise; pitch; speech; tone, character,...
3Latinsonōto sound, resound, make a sound or noise (and various sounds in-context)
4Proto-Italic*swonaōto sound, resound

Words derived from “ソニー”

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