Where does “小売店” come from?

小売店 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 小売, from Japanese 小, from Old Japanese ささ.

小売店 (Japanese): retail store

Definitions

  1. retail store

Ancestry of “小売店”, step by step

小売店 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 小売

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese小売retail; to retail
2Japanese小smallness; small size, small; Short for 小の月;...
3Old Japaneseささ—

via Japanese 店

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese店store, branch
2Middle Chinese店—
Every word from Old Japanese ささ →Every word from Japanese 小 →Every word from Japanese 小売 →