Where does “古神道” come from?
古神道 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 古, from Japanese KO, from English KO, from Japanese 劫, from Middle Chinese 劫, from Sanskrit कल्प, from Sanskrit -अ, from Sanskrit भाग्य — Paleo-Balkan oak.
古神道 (Japanese): a reconstruction of Shintō as practiced originally before any influence from Buddhism or Confucianism
Definitions
- a reconstruction of Shintō as practiced originally before any influence from Buddhism or Confucianism
Ancestry of “古神道”, step by step
古神道 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese 古
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 古 | the past; ancient times |
| 2 | Japanese | KO | knockout |
| 3 | English | KO | Abbreviation of knock out; To knock someone out,... |
| 4 | Japanese | 劫 | "kalpa": a unit of time in Buddhist cosmology; a... |
| 5 | Middle Chinese | 劫 | — |
| 6 | Sanskrit | कल्प | practicable, feasible, possible; proper, fit,... |
| 7 | Sanskrit | -अ | — |
| 8 | Sanskrit | भाग्य | luck, destiny, fate, fortune, chance, welfare,... |
| 9 | Sanskrit | भाग | part, portion, share, allotment; compartment,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | bʰāgás | division; allotment |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰeh₂gós | Paleo-Balkan oak |
via Japanese 神道
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 神道 | Shintō, a religion indigenous to Japan that... |
| 2 | Spanish | -ismo | -ism |
| 3 | French | féminisme | feminism |
| 4 | French | -ïsme | -ism, variant of -isme following vowels |
| 5 | Latin | -isma | Alternative form of -ismus; -ism |
| 6 | Latin | -ismus | -ism |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -ισμός | Forms abstract nouns |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | -μός | Forms abstract nouns |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -mós | Creates action/result nouns from verb stems |