Where does “ミシシッピ鰐” come from?

ミシシッピ鰐 (Japanese) comes from Japanese ミシシッピ, from English Mississippi, from Ojibwe misi-ziibi — great river.

ミシシッピ鰐 (Japanese): American alligator

Definitions

  1. American alligator

Ancestry of “ミシシッピ鰐”, step by step

ミシシッピ鰐 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese ミシシッピ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1JapaneseミシシッピMississippi
2EnglishMississippiUsed in a common chronometric counting scheme, in...
3Ojibwemisi-ziibigreat river

via Japanese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japaneseワニ crocodilian; a shark or other large and...
Every word from Ojibwe misi-ziibiEvery word from English MississippiEvery word from Japanese ミシシッピ
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