Where does “袋小路” come from?

袋小路 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 小路, from Japanese こみち, from Japanese 小, from Old Japanese ささ.

袋小路 (Japanese): blind alley, cul-de-sac, impasse, dead-end,...

Definitions

  1. blind alley, cul-de-sac, impasse, dead-end,...

Ancestry of “袋小路”, step by step

袋小路 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 小路

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese小路lane, alley; path, lane
2Japaneseこみちpath, lane, footpath
3Japanese小smallness; small size, small; Short for 小の月;...
4Old Japaneseささ—

via Japanese 袋

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese袋a bag; a sack; a pouch; a segment in a fruit such...
Every word from Old Japanese ささ →Every word from Japanese 小 →Every word from Japanese こみち →