Where does “河原鶸” come from?

河原鶸 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 河原, from Japanese 原, from Old Japanese 原, from Italian -para.

河原鶸 (Japanese): a grey-capped greenfinch

Definitions

  1. a grey-capped greenfinch

Ancestry of “河原鶸”, step by step

河原鶸 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 河原

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese河原a dry riverbed, especially of the 鴨川 in Kyoto
2Japanesemeadow, plain, field; the original thing; the...
3Old Japanese
4Italian-para

via Japanese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanesea finch of genus Carduelis or Spinus
Every word from Italian -paraEvery word from Old Japanese Every word from Japanese