Where does “名乗り” come from?

名乗り (Japanese) comes from Japanese 名, from Middle Chinese 名 — name.

名乗り (Japanese): nanori, Japanese readings of kanji characters...

Definitions

  1. nanori, Japanese readings of kanji characters...

Ancestry of “名乗り”, step by step

名乗り traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 名

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese名name; reputation; famous, great, noted
2Middle Chinese名name

via Japanese 乗り

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese乗り(act of) riding
2Japanese乗るto get on/ride (a bus, a train, a bicycle); to get in (a car); to mount (a horse)

Words derived from “名乗り”

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