Where does “木炭自動車” come from?

木炭自動車 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 自動車, from Japanese 自動, from Japanese 自動詞, from Japanese 詞, from Middle Chinese 詞.

木炭自動車 (Japanese): charcoal-powered vehicle

Definitions

  1. charcoal-powered vehicle

Ancestry of “木炭自動車”, step by step

木炭自動車 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 自動車

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese自動車automobile, car, motorcar
2Japanese自動automatic movement, automatic functioning;...
3Japanese自動詞intransitive verb
4Japanese詞word; word; part of speech
5Middle Chinese詞—

via Japanese 木炭

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese木炭charcoal
2Middle Chinese木炭—
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