Where does “荒土” come from?

荒土 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 土, from Middle Chinese 土.

荒土 (Japanese): wasteland

Definitions

  1. wasteland

Ancestry of “荒土”, step by step

荒土 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 土

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese土earth, soil, mud
2Middle Chinese土—

via Japanese 荒

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese荒crude, raw; rough, wild, violent; abandoned
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