Where does “組合せ数学” come from?

組合せ数学 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 数学, from Japanese 数, from Middle Chinese 數, from Old Chinese 數.

組合せ数学 (Japanese): combinatorics

Definitions

  1. combinatorics

Ancestry of “組合せ数学”, step by step

組合せ数学 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 数学

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese数学mathematics
2Japanese数number; amount; number; several
3Middle Chinese數—
4Old Chinese數—

via Japanese 組み合わせ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese組み合わせ—
Every word from Old Chinese 數 →Every word from Middle Chinese 數 →Every word from Japanese 数 →