Where does “雁が音” come from?

雁が音 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 雁, from Middle Chinese 雁.

雁が音 (Japanese): a goose's cry

Definitions

  1. a goose's cry

Ancestry of “雁が音”, step by step

雁が音 traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 雁

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese雁wild goose; cry of a wild goose
2Middle Chinese雁—

via Japanese 音

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese音sound
2Middle Chinese音—

via Japanese が

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1JapaneseがIndicates the subject of a sentence; conjunction;...
2Finnish-nkaForms nouns, mainly bird names (in dialects) and some toponyms
Every word from Middle Chinese 雁 →Every word from Japanese 雁 →