Where does “猪鹿蝶” come from?

猪鹿蝶 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 猪, from Japanese の, from Old Japanese の, from Middle Chinese 能 — talent, ability.

猪鹿蝶 (Japanese): in various 花札 card games, a 出来役 of the boar, deer, and butterfly cards; worth five points in こいこい

Definitions

  1. in various 花札 card games, a 出来役 of the boar, deer, and butterfly cards; worth five points in こいこい

Ancestry of “猪鹿蝶”, step by step

猪鹿蝶 traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 猪

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese猪a wild boar, "Sus scrofa"; a pig or wild boar;...
2Japaneseのgenitive case marker; nominative case marker in a...
3Old Japaneseのplain, field
4Middle Chinese能talent, ability

via Japanese 鹿

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese鹿deer; deer meat: venison; a beast
2Middle Chinese鹿—

via Japanese 蝶

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese蝶a butterfly
2Middle Chinese蝶—
Every word from Middle Chinese 能 →Every word from Old Japanese の →Every word from Japanese の →