Where does “短編小説” come from?

短編小説 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 小説, from Japanese 小, from Old Japanese ささ.

短編小説 (Japanese): a short novel, novella, short story

Definitions

  1. a short novel, novella, short story

Ancestry of “短編小説”, step by step

短編小説 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 小説

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese小説novel, story, fiction
2Japanese小smallness; small size, small; Short for 小の月;...
3Old Japaneseささ—

via Japanese 短編

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese短編short stories
Every word from Old Japanese ささ →Every word from Japanese 小 →Every word from Japanese 小説 →