Where does “合略仮名” come from?

合略仮名 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 仮名, from Japanese 名, from Middle Chinese 名 — name.

合略仮名 (Japanese): a kana ligature

Definitions

  1. a kana ligature

Ancestry of “合略仮名”, step by step

合略仮名 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 仮名

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese仮名a category of Japanese syllabary scripts: kana; a...
2Japanese名name; reputation; famous, great, noted
3Middle Chinese名name

via Japanese 合略

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese合略—
Every word from Middle Chinese 名 →Every word from Japanese 名 →Every word from Japanese 仮名 →