Where does “大蟻食” come from?
大蟻食 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 蟻食, from Japanese 蟻, from Japanese の, from Old Japanese の, from Middle Chinese 能 — talent, ability.
大蟻食 (Japanese): a giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla)
Definitions
- a giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla)
Ancestry of “大蟻食”, step by step
大蟻食 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese 蟻食
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 蟻食 | an anteater |
| 2 | Japanese | 蟻 | ant; an ant, particularly one without wings; an... |
| 3 | Japanese | の | genitive case marker; nominative case marker in a... |
| 4 | Old Japanese | の | plain, field |
| 5 | Middle Chinese | 能 | talent, ability |
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 |