Where does “守銭奴” come from?
守銭奴 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 守, from Japanese 連用形, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.
守銭奴 (Japanese): miser, a person who hoards money
Definitions
- miser, a person who hoards money
Ancestry of “守銭奴”, step by step
守銭奴 traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese 守
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 守 | a watchman, a keeper as of a lighthouse, a caretaker |
| 2 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 3 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 4 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 5 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 6 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 7 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |
via Japanese 銭
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 銭 | hundredth of a yen; one-thousandth of a kan |
| 2 | Middle Chinese | 錢 | — |
via Japanese 奴
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 奴 | manservant; square block of tofu; guy, girl,... |