Where does “ネズミ目” come from?

ネズミ目 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.

ネズミ目 (Japanese): Rodentia

Definitions

  1. Rodentia

Ancestry of “ネズミ目”, step by step

ネズミ目 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 目

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese目an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger...
2Middle Chinese目—

via Japanese 鼠

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese鼠a mouse or a rat; general term for members of...
2Japanesenezumi—
Every word from Middle Chinese 目 →Every word from Japanese 目 →