Where does “肥後守” come from?
肥後守 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 守, from Japanese 連用形, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.
肥後守 (Japanese): A type of Japanese folding pocketknife
Definitions
- A type of Japanese folding pocketknife
Ancestry of “肥後守”, step by step
肥後守 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese 守
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 守 | a watchman, a keeper as of a lighthouse, a caretaker |
| 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 | — |