Where does “白身” come from?
白身 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 身, from Japanese み, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.
白身 (Japanese): egg white
Definitions
- egg white
Ancestry of “白身”, step by step
白身 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese 身
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 身 | a body; a living body; a dead body, a corpse |
| 2 | Japanese | み | 身 body; 実 fruit; nut; content; 霊, 神 spirit; god |
| 3 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 4 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 5 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 6 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 7 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |