Where does “朝日” come from?

朝日 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 日, from Old Japanese 日, from Proto-Japonic *pi — day, sun.

朝日 (Japanese): Rising sun, morning sun

Definitions

  1. Rising sun, morning sun

Ancestry of “朝日”, step by step

朝日 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 日

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese日Sunday
2Old Japanese日the sun; sunlight, sunshine; daytime, daylight
3Proto-Japonic*piday, sun

via Japanese 朝

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese朝the morning; the morning, morn; the morrow, next...
2Old Japanese朝the morning, morn; the morrow, next morning
3Proto-Japonicasamorning

Words derived from “朝日”

Every word from Proto-Japonic *pi →Every word from Old Japanese 日 →Every word from Japanese 日 →