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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

  1. trendy and Western; fashionable, stylish; modern,...

Ancestry of “ハイカラ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japaneseハイカラー—
2EnglishcollarAnything that encircles the neck; A piece of meat...
3Middle EnglishcolerA piece of clothing or jewelry for around the...
4Old Frenchcolercollar
5Latincollāre—
6Latincollāris—
7Latincollumneck, throat; upper stem of a plant; servitude
8Latin-issuffixed to the root of nouns in composition,...
9Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
10Proto-Italic-ā—
11Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—
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