Where does “立ち食い” come from?
立ち食い (Japanese) comes from Japanese 食い, from Japanese 鯎, from Japanese 鵜 — a cormorant.
立ち食い (Japanese): standing and eating; eating at a street stall or...
Definitions
- standing and eating; eating at a street stall or...
Ancestry of “立ち食い”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Japanese | 食い | eating, grubbing up; bite |
| 2 | Japanese | 鯎 | the Japanese dace, also known as the big-scaled... |
| 3 | Japanese | 鵜 | a cormorant |