Where does “名古屋弁” come from?

名古屋弁 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 弁, from Middle Chinese 辨.

名古屋弁 (Japanese): Nagoya dialect

Definitions

  1. Nagoya dialect

Ancestry of “名古屋弁”, step by step

名古屋弁 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 弁

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese弁dialect
2Middle Chinese辨—

via Japanese 名古屋

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese名古屋Nagoya
Every word from Middle Chinese 辨 →Every word from Japanese 弁 →