Where does “頭が高い” come from?

頭が高い (Japanese) comes from Japanese 頭, from Japanese ど- — super-.

頭が高い (Japanese): haughty

Definitions

  1. haughty

Ancestry of “頭が高い”, step by step

頭が高い traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 頭

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese頭head; the fontanelle part of the skull; the head...
2Japaneseど-super-

via Japanese が

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

via Japanese 高い

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese高いhigh, tall; superior; expensive
2Japanese高し—
Every word from Japanese ど- →Every word from Japanese 頭 →