Where does “天” come from?

天 (Japanese) comes from Old Japanese 天, from Proto-Japonic *amay.

天 (Japanese): the sky, the heavens; the area above a kitchen...

Definitions

  1. the sky, the heavens; the area above a kitchen...

Ancestry of “天”, step by step

天 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old Japanese 天

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Japanese天sky, heavens
2Proto-Japonic*amay—

via Middle Chinese 天

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Chinese天—

Words derived from “天”

Every word from Proto-Japonic *amay →Every word from Old Japanese 天 →