Where does “早稲田” come from?

早稲田 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 田, from Japanese 熊田 — Kumada (neighborhoods in Japan).

早稲田 (Japanese): a paddy of early-ripening rice

Definitions

  1. a paddy of early-ripening rice

Ancestry of “早稲田”, step by step

早稲田 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 田

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese田rice paddy; cultivated field
2Japanese熊田Kumada (neighborhoods in Japan)

via Japanese 早稲

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese早稲rice maturing early

Words derived from “早稲田”

Every word from Japanese 熊田 →Every word from Japanese 田 →