Where does “バカップル” come from?
バカップル (Japanese) comes from Japanese カップル, from English couple, from Middle English couple, from Old French couple, from Vulgar Latin copla, from Latin cōpula, from Latin coapula, from Latin apio — the god Apis.
バカップル (Japanese): love birds; sickeningly sweet and soppy couple
Definitions
- love birds; sickeningly sweet and soppy couple
Ancestry of “バカップル”, step by step
バカップル traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese カップル
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | カップル | romantic couple |
| 2 | English | couple | Two partners in a romantic or sexual... |
| 3 | Middle English | couple | A couple; two people joined by a marital union or... |
| 4 | Old French | couple | couple; sexual liaison |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | copla | — |
| 6 | Latin | cōpula | a bond, tie, band or other connecting item |
| 7 | Latin | coapula | — |
| 8 | Latin | apio | dative singular of apium; ablative singular of... |
| 9 | Latin | apium | parsley; celery; genitive plural of apis |
| 10 | Latin | Apis | A seaport town of Egypt situated at the borders with Marmarica |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | Ἄπις | — |
| 12 | Coptic | ϩⲁⲡⲉ | the Apis bull, a bull worshipped as a herald of the gods (first Ptah, then Osiris, then Atum) |
| 13 | Egyptian | ḥp | the god Apis |
via Japanese 馬鹿
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 馬鹿 | foolish, idiotic, stupid, ridiculous; useless,... |
| 2 | Sanskrit | मोह | loss of consciousness, bewilderment, perplexity,... |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | máwǰʰas | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | mawǰʰ- ~ mawgʰ- | to err, to be foolish, to deviate |