Where does “小蝶鮫” come from?

小蝶鮫 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 蝶鮫, from Japanese 蝶, from Middle Chinese 蝶.

小蝶鮫 (Japanese): a sterlet

Definitions

  1. a sterlet

Ancestry of “小蝶鮫”, step by step

小蝶鮫 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 蝶鮫

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese蝶鮫a sturgeon
2Japanese蝶a butterfly
3Middle Chinese蝶—

via Japanese 小

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese小smallness; small size, small; Short for 小の月;...
2Old Japaneseささ—
Every word from Middle Chinese 蝶 →Every word from Japanese 蝶 →Every word from Japanese 蝶鮫 →