Where does “灰色野鶏” come from?
灰色野鶏 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 野鶏, from Japanese 鶏, from Japanese 庭, from Old Japanese にわ.
灰色野鶏 (Japanese): a grey junglefowl
Ancestry of “灰色野鶏”, step by step
灰色野鶏 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese 野鶏
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 野鶏 | a junglefowl |
| 2 | Japanese | 鶏 | a domesticated chicken; a chicken; Alternative... |
| 3 | Japanese | 庭 | garden; place where something is done; at the... |
| 4 | Old Japanese | にわ | — |
via Japanese 灰色
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 灰色 | gray (color), an ashen color |
| 2 | Japanese | 色 | color |
| 3 | Middle Chinese | 色 | — |