Where does “尾黒目白鮫” come from?
尾黒目白鮫 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 目白鮫, from Japanese 目白, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.
尾黒目白鮫 (Japanese): a grey reef shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos)
Definitions
- a grey reef shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos)
Ancestry of “尾黒目白鮫”, step by step
尾黒目白鮫 traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese 目白鮫
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 目白鮫 | a sandbar shark |
| 2 | Japanese | 目白 | the Japanese white-eye, Zosterops japonicus; a... |
| 3 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 4 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |
via Japanese 尾
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 尾 | a tail; the foot of a mountain; the end of... |
| 2 | Old Japanese | 尾 | — |
via Japanese 黒
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 黒 | black; a black stone; the person who plays black... |