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
立ち食い traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese 食い
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 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 |
via Japanese 立ち
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 立ち | standing, standing up; standing; starting,... |
| 2 | Japanese | 立つ | to stand, to stand up, to rise; to depart; to... |
| 3 | Proto-Japonic | tatu | — |