Where does “ペーパークラフト” come from?

ペーパークラフト (Japanese) comes from English papercraft, from English paper, from Middle English paper, from Old French papier, from Old Catalan paper, from Latin papȳrus, from French -ine, from French -é.

ペーパークラフト (Japanese): papercraft

Definitions

  1. papercraft

Ancestry of “ペーパークラフト”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpapercraftThe art of making things from paper
2EnglishpaperA sheet material used for writing on or printing...
3Middle Englishpaperpaper; A text, message or note; something that is...
4Old Frenchpapierto murmur
5Old Catalanpaperpaper sheet material typically used for writing on or printing
6Latinpapȳruspapyrus plant
7French-inefeminine singular of -in; female equivalent of...
8French-épast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
9Middle French-épast participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n
10Old French-éused to form past participles of regular -er...
11Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
12Proto-Italic-āForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
13Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →Every word from French -ine →Every word from Latin -a →