Where does “船食虫” come from?
船食虫 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 食い, from Japanese 鯎, from Japanese 鵜 — a cormorant.
船食虫 (Japanese): a shipworm
Definitions
- a shipworm
Ancestry of “船食虫”, step by step
船食虫 traces back through 3 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 船
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 船 | ship, vessel, larger ship |
| 2 | Old Japanese | ふね | — |
| 3 | Proto-Japonic | punay | boat |
via Japanese 虫
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 虫 | a bug, insect, worm; a serpent, snake; a worm |