Where does “巡航ミサイル” come from?
巡航ミサイル (Japanese) comes from Japanese ミサイル, from English missile, from Latin missile, from Latin missilis, from Latin mittere, from Proto-Indo-European meyth₂- — to hurt; to exchange, remove; to replace, to...
巡航ミサイル (Japanese): a cruise missile
Definitions
- a cruise missile
Ancestry of “巡航ミサイル”, step by step
巡航ミサイル traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese ミサイル
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | ミサイル | missile |
| 2 | English | missile | Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or... |
| 3 | Latin | missile | a thrown weapon, such as a javelin; presents from... |
| 4 | Latin | missilis | That may be thrown |
| 5 | Latin | mittere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | meyth₂- | to hurt; to exchange, remove; to replace, to... |
via Japanese 巡航
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 巡航 | cruise |