Where does “山葵大根” come from?

山葵大根 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 大根, from Japanese 大, from Old Japanese 大, from Proto-Japonic əpə — big, large; many.

山葵大根 (Japanese): horseradish

Definitions

  1. horseradish

Ancestry of “山葵大根”, step by step

山葵大根 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 大根

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese大根daikon, a large white variety of radish native to...
2Japanesebig, large; the large part of; arch-
3Old Japanesebig, large; large
4Proto-Japonicəpəbig, large; many

via Japanese 山葵

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese山葵"wasabi": the Japanese horseradish; the stem of...
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