Where does “西角目鳥” come from?

西角目鳥 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 西, from Japanese し, from Middle Chinese 氏.

西角目鳥 (Japanese): an Atlantic puffin

Definitions

  1. an Atlantic puffin

Ancestry of “西角目鳥”, step by step

西角目鳥 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 西

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese西west; the West; wind blowing from the west
2JapaneseしConjunctive particle. Follows items in a list of...
3Middle Chinese氏—

via Japanese 角目鳥

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese角目鳥a horned puffin
2Japanese目an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger...
3Middle Chinese目—
Every word from Middle Chinese 氏 →Every word from Japanese し →Every word from Japanese 西 →