Where does “豚カツ” come from?

豚カツ (Japanese) comes from Japanese カツ, from Japanese カツレツ, from English cutlet, from French côtelette, from Middle French costelette, from Middle French -elette, from Middle French -el, from Latin -ellus — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

豚カツ (Japanese): tonkatsu a Japanese dish

Definitions

  1. tonkatsu a Japanese dish

Ancestry of “豚カツ”, step by step

豚カツ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese カツ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japaneseカツcutlet
2Japaneseカツレツcutlet
3EnglishcutletA thin slice of meat, usually fried; A chop, a...
4Frenchcôtelettecutlet; chop
5Middle Frenchcostelettecutlet
6Middle French-elettediminutive suffix
7Middle French-el
8Latin-ellusAlternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine...
9Latin-ulusUsed to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating...
10Proto-Italic-olos
11Proto-Italic-elosForms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns
12Proto-Indo-European-e-lós
13Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots

via Japanese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanesepig; swine
2Chinesesuckling pig

Words derived from “豚カツ

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -lós