Where does “小僧” come from?

小僧 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 小, from Old Japanese ささ.

小僧 (Japanese): young/novice Buddhist monk; servant boy in a...

Definitions

  1. young/novice Buddhist monk; servant boy in a...

Ancestry of “小僧”, step by step

小僧 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 小

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese小smallness; small size, small; Short for 小の月;...
2Old Japaneseささ—

via Japanese 僧

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese僧a priest, bonze

Words derived from “小僧”

Every word from Old Japanese ささ →Every word from Japanese 小 →