Where does “裏切り者” come from?

裏切り者 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 者, from Middle Chinese 者.

裏切り者 (Japanese): A traitor, betrayer, turncoat, or backstabber

Definitions

  1. A traitor, betrayer, turncoat, or backstabber

Ancestry of “裏切り者”, step by step

裏切り者 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 者

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese者person; someone of that type, someone who does...
2Middle Chinese者—

via Japanese 裏切り

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese裏切りtreachery, betrayal
2Japanese切るto cut, to slice, to carve; cut down, fell, chop...
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