Where does “水鶏” come from?
水鶏 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 食い, from Japanese 鯎, from Japanese 鵜 — a cormorant.
水鶏 (Japanese): the water rail, "Rallus aquaticus"
Definitions
- the water rail, "Rallus aquaticus"
Ancestry of “水鶏”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Japanese | 食い | eating, grubbing up; bite |
| 2 | Japanese | 鯎 | the Japanese dace, also known as the big-scaled... |
| 3 | Japanese | 鵜 | a cormorant |