Where does “小毛綿鴨” come from?
小毛綿鴨 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 毛綿鴨, from Japanese 鴨, from Japanese 家鴨, from Middle Chinese かおう.
小毛綿鴨 (Japanese): a Steller's eider
Ancestry of “小毛綿鴨”, step by step
小毛綿鴨 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese 毛綿鴨
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 毛綿鴨 | a king eider |
| 2 | Japanese | 鴨 | a duck; a mark or easy target for a swindle,... |
| 3 | Japanese | 家鴨 | a domestic duck; a woman who is short and has a... |
| 4 | Middle Chinese | かおう | — |
via Japanese 小
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 小 | smallness; small size, small; Short for 小の月;... |
| 2 | Old Japanese | ささ | — |