Where does “己酉” come from?

己酉 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 酉, from Japanese 鶏, from Japanese 庭, from Old Japanese にわ.

己酉 (Japanese): Earth Rooster, the forty-sixth term of the sexagenary cycle

Definitions

  1. Earth Rooster, the forty-sixth term of the sexagenary cycle

Ancestry of “己酉”, step by step

己酉 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 酉

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese酉the Rooster, the tenth of the twelve Earthly Branches
2Japanese鶏a domesticated chicken; a chicken; Alternative...
3Japanese庭garden; place where something is done; at the...
4Old Japaneseにわ—

via Japanese 己

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese己reflexive pronoun: oneself; first-person pronoun:...
2Middle Chinese己—
Every word from Old Japanese にわ →Every word from Japanese 庭 →Every word from Japanese 鶏 →