Where does “ハイイロオオカミ” come from?

ハイイロオオカミ (Japanese) comes from Japanese 狼, from Japanese 大, from Old Japanese 大, from Proto-Japonic əpə — big, large; many.

ハイイロオオカミ (Japanese): grey wolf, Canis lupus

Definitions

  1. grey wolf, Canis lupus

Ancestry of “ハイイロオオカミ”, step by step

ハイイロオオカミ 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 灰色

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese灰色gray (color), an ashen color
2Japanese色color
3Middle Chinese色—
Every word from Proto-Japonic əpə →Every word from Old Japanese 大 →Every word from Japanese 大 →