Where does “大王酸漿烏賊” come from?

大王酸漿烏賊 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 酸漿, from Japanese 頬, from Japanese 列, from Middle Chinese 列.

大王酸漿烏賊 (Japanese): a colossal squid

Definitions

  1. a colossal squid

Ancestry of “大王酸漿烏賊”, step by step

大王酸漿烏賊 traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 酸漿

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese酸漿"Physalis alkekengi"
2Japanese頬cheek; the cheeks; the face
3Japanese列line, row; a column of a matrix
4Middle Chinese列—

via Japanese 大王

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese大王a "great king"; a "great prince"
2Japanese王a king; an East Asian queen regnant; an East...
3Middle Chinese王—

via Japanese 烏賊

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese烏賊a squid, a cuttlefish
2Chinese烏賊cuttlefish
Every word from Middle Chinese 列 →Every word from Japanese 列 →Every word from Japanese 頬 →