Where does “猿食鷲” come from?

猿食鷲 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 食う, from Old Japanese くう, from Middle Chinese 偶.

猿食鷲 (Japanese): a monkey-eating eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi)

Definitions

  1. a monkey-eating eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi)

Ancestry of “猿食鷲”, step by step

猿食鷲 traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 食う

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese食うto put something in one's mouth; to eat, to...
2Old Japaneseくう—
3Middle Chinese偶—

via Japanese 猿

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese猿a monkey; Short for 日本猿; an ape
2Chinese猿ape

via Japanese 鷲

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese鷲an eagle
Every word from Middle Chinese 偶 →Every word from Old Japanese くう →Every word from Japanese 食う →