Where does “眼鏡カイマン” come from?

眼鏡カイマン (Japanese) comes from Japanese 眼鏡, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.

眼鏡カイマン (Japanese): a spectacled caiman

Definitions

  1. a spectacled caiman

Ancestry of “眼鏡カイマン”, step by step

眼鏡カイマン traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 眼鏡

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese眼鏡glasses, eyeglasses
2Japanese目an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger...
3Middle Chinese目—

via Japanese カイマン

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japaneseカイマンa caiman
2Spanishcaimánalligator; caiman
3Taínokaimán—
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