Where does “十三参り” come from?
十三参り (Japanese) comes from Japanese 参り, from Japanese 連用形, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.
十三参り (Japanese): A celebration for girls who have reached the age...
Definitions
- A celebration for girls who have reached the age...
Ancestry of “十三参り”, step by step
十三参り traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese 参り
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 参り | visiting a shrine or temple |
| 2 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 3 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 4 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 5 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 6 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 7 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |