Where does “南蛮鴃舌” come from?

南蛮鴃舌 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 舌, from Old Japanese した, from Translingual − — A long signal, used to form Morse code text, together with. (a short signal).

Ancestry of “南蛮鴃舌”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanesetongue
2Old Japaneseした
3TranslingualA long signal, used to form Morse code text, together with. (a short signal)
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