Where does “眼鏡猿” come from?

眼鏡猿 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 眼鏡, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.

眼鏡猿 (Japanese): a tarsier

Definitions

  1. a tarsier

Ancestry of “眼鏡猿”, step by step

眼鏡猿 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 猿

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