Where does “小冊子” come from?

小冊子 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 小, from Old Japanese ささ.

小冊子 (Japanese): booklet, pamphlet, leaflet, brochure

Definitions

  1. booklet, pamphlet, leaflet, brochure

Ancestry of “小冊子”, step by step

小冊子 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 冊子

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese冊子book, booklet
2Middle Chineseさっし—
Every word from Old Japanese ささ →Every word from Japanese 小 →