Where does “中日” come from?
中日 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 中, from Japanese 中今, from Japanese 今 — now; just now; soon.
中日 (Japanese): central Japan
Ancestry of “中日”, step by step
中日 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese 中
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 中 | middle, medium; average; neither good nor poor;... |
| 2 | Japanese | 中今 | the present, as a privileged moment in eternity |
| 3 | Japanese | 今 | now; just now; soon |
via Japanese 日
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 日 | Sunday |
| 2 | Old Japanese | 日 | the sun; sunlight, sunshine; daytime, daylight |
| 3 | Proto-Japonic | *pi | day, sun |