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
- colored glasses; a bias, a preconception that...
Ancestry of “色眼鏡”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Japanese | 眼鏡 | glasses, eyeglasses |
| 2 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 3 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |