Where does “遠眼鏡” come from?

遠眼鏡 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 眼鏡, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.

遠眼鏡 (Japanese): an optical instrument for observing things from far away, such as a telescope or binoculars

Definitions

  1. an optical instrument for observing things from far away, such as a telescope or binoculars

Ancestry of “遠眼鏡”, step by step

遠眼鏡 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 眼鏡

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese眼鏡glasses, eyeglasses
2Japanese目an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger...
3Middle Chinese目—

via Japanese 遠

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese遠distant, far-off; a distant place; a time far...
2Middle Chinese遠—
Every word from Middle Chinese 目 →Every word from Japanese 目 →Every word from Japanese 眼鏡 →