Where does “見聞き” come from?
見聞き (Japanese) comes from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.
見聞き (Japanese): looking and listening, seeing and hearing;...
Definitions
- looking and listening, seeing and hearing;...
Ancestry of “見聞き”, step by step
見聞き 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 聞く
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 聞く | to hear, to listen; to have heard of before; to... |
| 2 | Lamboya | kiku | — |
| 3 | Proto-Austronesian | *kikuʀ | — |