Where does “海里” come from?

海里 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 海, from Old Japanese うな.

海里 (Japanese): a nautical mile: the length of roughly one minute...

Definitions

  1. a nautical mile: the length of roughly one minute...

Ancestry of “海里”, step by step

海里 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 海

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese海a sea, an ocean; a lake; an object covering over...
2Old Japaneseうな—

via Japanese 里

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese里a village; a country house; one's hometown
2Japanese聡いclever, keen, smart, quick on the uptake
Every word from Old Japanese うな →Every word from Japanese 海 →