Where does “メスガキ” come from?

メスガキ (Japanese) comes from Japanese 雌, from Old Japanese 女 — woman.

メスガキ (Japanese): mesugaki

Definitions

  1. mesugaki

Ancestry of “メスガキ”, step by step

メスガキ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 雌

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese雌a female; a female person; an internal socket
2Old Japanese女woman

via Japanese 餓鬼

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese餓鬼short for 餓鬼道: the hungry ghost realm, one of the six realms of reincarnation in Buddhist cosmology
2Middle Chinese餓鬼—

Words derived from “メスガキ”

Every word from Old Japanese 女 →Every word from Japanese 雌 →