Where does “見付ける” come from?
見付ける (Japanese) comes from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.
見付ける (Japanese): to discover, to find
Ancestry of “見付ける”, step by step
見付ける traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese 見る
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 2 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 3 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 4 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 5 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |
via Japanese 付ける
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 付ける | attach, affix, stick, fasten, add, add on,... |
| 2 | Japanese | 付く | attach itself to, stick, stick to, adhere, adhere... |