Where does “小泉” come from?

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

小泉 (Japanese): a placename, such that of a district in northwestern Nara Prefecture

Definitions

  1. a placename, such that of a district in northwestern Nara Prefecture

Ancestry of “小泉”, step by step

小泉 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 泉

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese泉natural spring, a wellspring
2Japanese和泉Izumi, an old province of Japan

Words derived from “小泉”

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