Where does “色眼鏡” come from?

色眼鏡 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 眼鏡, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.

色眼鏡 (Japanese): colored glasses; a bias, a preconception that...

Definitions

  1. colored glasses; a bias, a preconception that...

Ancestry of “色眼鏡”, step by step

色眼鏡 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 眼鏡

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese眼鏡glasses, eyeglasses
2Japanese目an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger...
3Middle Chinese目—

via Japanese 色

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese色color
2Middle Chinese色—
Every word from Middle Chinese 目 →Every word from Japanese 目 →Every word from Japanese 眼鏡 →