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Where does “ハイカラー” come from?

ハイカラー (Japanese) comes from English collar, from Middle English coler, from Old French coler, from Latin collāre, from Latin collāris, from Latin collum, from Latin -is, from Latin -a.

Ancestry of “ハイカラー”, step by step

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

Words derived from “ハイカラー”

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