Where does “雪豹” come from?

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

雪豹 (Japanese): a snow leopard

Definitions

  1. a snow leopard

Ancestry of “雪豹”, step by step

雪豹 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 雪

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese雪snow
2Old Japanese雪snow

via Japanese 豹

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese豹a leopard
2Middle Chinese豹—
Every word from Old Japanese 雪 →Every word from Japanese 雪 →