Where does “長槍” come from?
長槍 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 槍, from Japanese 連用形, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.
長槍 (Japanese): a pike
Definitions
- a pike
Ancestry of “長槍”, step by step
長槍 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese 槍
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 槍 | a spear, lance; common name for the 香車; a javelin |
| 2 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 3 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 4 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 5 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 6 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 7 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |