Where does “赤腹井守” come from?
赤腹井守 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 井守, from Japanese 守り, from Japanese 守る, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.
赤腹井守 (Japanese): a Japanese fire belly newt (Cynops pyrrhogaster)
Definitions
- a Japanese fire belly newt (Cynops pyrrhogaster)
Ancestry of “赤腹井守”, step by step
赤腹井守 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese 井守
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 井守 | 蠑螈 a salamandrid; Short for 赤腹井守; a job title in... |
| 2 | Japanese | 守り | defense, protection |
| 3 | Japanese | 守る | to stand watch over something, to be on the... |
| 4 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 5 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |
via Japanese 赤腹
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 赤腹 | brown-headed thrush (Turdus chrysolaus) |
| 2 | Japanese | 腹 | belly |