Where does “紅葉” come from?
紅葉 (Japanese) comes from Old Japanese 紅葉, from Japanese 連用形, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.
紅葉 (Japanese): the turning of leaves, "especially" in autumn;...
Definitions
- the turning of leaves, "especially" in autumn;...
Ancestry of “紅葉”, step by step
紅葉 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Old Japanese 紅葉
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old Japanese | 紅葉 | the turning of leaves in autumn; the turned... |
| 2 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 3 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 4 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 5 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 6 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 7 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |
via Chinese 紅葉
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese | 紅葉 | red autumnal leaves |