Where does “大道具” come from?

大道具 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 大, from Old Japanese 大, from Proto-Japonic əpə — big, large; many.

大道具 (Japanese): scenery; stage setting; set

Definitions

  1. scenery; stage setting; set

Ancestry of “大道具”, step by step

大道具 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 大

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese大big, large; the large part of; arch-
2Old Japanese大big, large; large
3Proto-Japonicəpəbig, large; many

via Japanese 道具

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese道具tool; a means, something used to perform an...
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