Where does “鎮魂曲” come from?

鎮魂曲 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 曲, from Middle Chinese 曲.

鎮魂曲 (Japanese): requiem music composed to honor a dead person

Definitions

  1. requiem music composed to honor a dead person

Ancestry of “鎮魂曲”, step by step

鎮魂曲 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 曲

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese曲a piece of music
2Middle Chinese曲—

via Japanese 鎮魂

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese鎮魂consolation and pacification of the souls of the...
2Middle Chinese鎮魂—
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