Where does “雪兎” come from?

雪兎 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 雪, from Old Japanese 雪 — snow.

雪兎 (Japanese): a mountain hare

Definitions

  1. a mountain hare

Ancestry of “雪兎”, step by step

雪兎 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 雪

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese雪snow
2Old Japanese雪snow

via Japanese 兎

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese兎rabbit; hare; leporid
Every word from Old Japanese 雪 →Every word from Japanese 雪 →