Where does “ハイカラ” come from?
ハイカラ (Japanese) comes from Japanese ハイカラー, from English collar, from Middle English coler, from Old French coler, from Latin collāre, from Latin collāris, from Latin collum, from Latin -is.
ハイカラ (Japanese): trendy and Western; fashionable, stylish; modern,...
Definitions
- trendy and Western; fashionable, stylish; modern,...
Ancestry of “ハイカラ”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Japanese | ハイカラー | — |
| 2 | English | collar | Anything that encircles the neck; A piece of meat... |
| 3 | Middle English | coler | A piece of clothing or jewelry for around the... |
| 4 | Old French | coler | collar |
| 5 | Latin | collāre | — |
| 6 | Latin | collāris | — |
| 7 | Latin | collum | neck, throat; upper stem of a plant; servitude |
| 8 | Latin | -is | suffixed to the root of nouns in composition,... |
| 9 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -ā | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |