Where does “貨物自動車” come from?

貨物自動車 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 自動車, from Japanese 自動, from Japanese 自動詞, from Japanese 詞, from Middle Chinese 詞.

貨物自動車 (Japanese): truck vehicle designed for carrying cargo

Definitions

  1. truck vehicle designed for carrying cargo

Ancestry of “貨物自動車”, step by step

貨物自動車 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 自動車

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese自動車automobile, car, motorcar
2Japanese自動automatic movement, automatic functioning;...
3Japanese自動詞intransitive verb
4Japanese詞word; word; part of speech
5Middle Chinese詞—

via Japanese 貨物

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese貨物freight, cargo
Every word from Middle Chinese 詞 →Every word from Japanese 自動 →Every word from Japanese 自動詞 →