Where does “彼女” come from?
彼女 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 彼の, from Japanese 彼, from Old Japanese か.
彼女 (Japanese): Female third-person singular pronoun; she, her;...
Definitions
- Female third-person singular pronoun; she, her;...
Ancestry of “彼女”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 彼の | that |
| 2 | Japanese | 彼 | distal demonstrative, something far off removed... |
| 3 | Old Japanese | か | — |