Where does “ヤンキー” come from?
ヤンキー (Japanese) comes from English yankee, from Dutch Janke, from Dutch Jan, from Norwegian Bokmål Johannes, from Icelandic Jóhannes, from Latin Iōhannēs, from Latin Iōannēs, from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης.
ヤンキー (Japanese): Yankee; a delinquent youth who has bad manners,...
Definitions
- Yankee; a delinquent youth who has bad manners,...
Ancestry of “ヤンキー”, step by step