Where does “土俵入り” come from?

土俵入り (Japanese) comes from Japanese 入り, from Japanese 入る, from Old Japanese いる.

土俵入り (Japanese): dohyo-iri, a ring-entering ceremony performed by...

Definitions

  1. dohyo-iri, a ring-entering ceremony performed by...

Ancestry of “土俵入り”, step by step

土俵入り traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 入り

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese入りentering; entry, going in; entry, entering
2Japanese入るto enter, go into, get into; to arrive; to join a...
3Old Japaneseいる—

via Japanese 土俵

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese土俵the ring; a sandbag

Words derived from “土俵入り”

Every word from Old Japanese いる →Every word from Japanese 入る →Every word from Japanese 入り →