Where does “ダイビング” come from?

ダイビング (Japanese) comes from English diving, from English dive, from Middle English diven, from Old English dūfan, from Proto-West Germanic *dūban, from Proto-Germanic dūbaną — to dive, to sink.

ダイビング (Japanese): diving

Definitions

  1. diving

Ancestry of “ダイビング”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishdivingpresent participle of dive; The action of the...
2EnglishdiveTo swim under water; To jump into water...
3Middle Englishdiven—
4Old Englishdūfanto duck, dive, sink, penetrate; to dive
5Proto-West Germanic*dūbanto dive
6Proto-Germanicdūbanąto dive, to sink
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