Where does “ネブラスカオオカミ” come from?

ネブラスカオオカミ (Japanese) comes from Japanese 狼, from Japanese 大, from Old Japanese 大, from Proto-Japonic əpə — big, large; many.

ネブラスカオオカミ (Japanese): a Great Plains wolf

Definitions

  1. a Great Plains wolf

Ancestry of “ネブラスカオオカミ”, step by step

ネブラスカオオカミ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 狼

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese狼a wolf; Short for 日本狼
2Japanese大big, large; the large part of; arch-
3Old Japanese大big, large; large
4Proto-Japonicəpəbig, large; many

via Japanese ネブラスカ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1JapaneseネブラスカNebraska
2EnglishNebraskaSeveral other places in the United States, named for the state or territory
Every word from Proto-Japonic əpə →Every word from Old Japanese 大 →Every word from Japanese 大 →