Where does “豹海豹” come from?

豹海豹 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 海豹, from Japanese 等, from Japanese なんど, from Japanese 何と, from Japanese 何 — What?, Huh?; what; that thing.

豹海豹 (Japanese): a leopard seal

Definitions

  1. a leopard seal

Ancestry of “豹海豹”, step by step

豹海豹 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 海豹

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese海豹a seal, specifically the earless seal or true...
2Japanese等et cetera; rank, class, order; et cetera, that...
3Japaneseなんど何度 the number of times, how often; 等 et cetera;...
4Japanese何とetc., and so forth, and such like
5Japanese何What?, Huh?; what; that thing

via Japanese 豹

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese豹a leopard
2Middle Chinese豹—
Every word from Japanese 何 →Every word from Japanese 何と →Every word from Japanese なんど →