Where does “見る” come from?

見る (Japanese) comes from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.

見る (Japanese): to see, to watch, to observe, to look at...

Definitions

  1. to see, to watch, to observe, to look at...

Ancestry of “見る”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanesea dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state...
2Old Japanesea dream
3Japanesean order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger...
4Middle Chinese

Words derived from “見る

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