Where does “白口錦蛇” come from?

白口錦蛇 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 錦蛇, from Japanese 錦, from Japanese 丹, from Old Japanese 丹.

白口錦蛇 (Japanese): a white-lipped python

Definitions

  1. a white-lipped python

Ancestry of “白口錦蛇”, step by step

白口錦蛇 traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 錦蛇

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese錦蛇a python
2Japanese錦brocade; a word expressing beauty
3Japanese丹the color red; red earth; cinnabar
4Old Japanese丹—

via Japanese 口

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese口mouth; opening; the mouth
2Japaneseくちmouth
3Japanese朽ちる—

via Japanese 白

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese白the color white; innocence; a white go stone
2Middle Chinese白—
Every word from Old Japanese 丹 →Every word from Japanese 丹 →Every word from Japanese 錦 →