Where does “ビューファインダー” come from?

ビューファインダー (Japanese) comes from English viewfinder, from English finder, from German Finder, from German -er, from Old High German -āri, from Proto-West Germanic -ārī, from Proto-Germanic -ārijaz, from Latin -ārius — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

ビューファインダー (Japanese): viewfinder

Definitions

  1. viewfinder

Ancestry of “ビューファインダー”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishviewfinderA device on a camera that shows what will appear...
2EnglishfinderOne who finds or discovers something; An optical...
3GermanFinderfinder
4German-erForms agent nouns etc. from verbs, suffixed to...
5Old High German-āriused to form agent nouns
6Proto-West Germanic-ārī-er
7Proto-Germanic-ārijaz-er
8Latin-āriuser
9Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)
Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios
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