Where does “大神” come from?
大神 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 大, from Old Japanese 大, from Proto-Japonic əpə — big, large; many.
大神 (Japanese): a god
Ancestry of “大神”, step by step
大神 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese 大
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 大 | big, large; the large part of; arch- |
| 2 | Old Japanese | 大 | big, large; large |
| 3 | Proto-Japonic | əpə | big, large; many |
via Japanese 神
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 神 | a spirit or an essence present in all things, the... |
| 2 | Japanese | かみ | — |
| 3 | Translingual | − | A long signal, used to form Morse code text, together with. (a short signal) |