Where does “頭黒錦蛇” come from?

頭黒錦蛇 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 錦蛇, from Japanese 錦, from Japanese 丹, from Old Japanese 丹.

頭黒錦蛇 (Japanese): a black-headed python (Aspidites melanocephalus)

Definitions

  1. a black-headed python (Aspidites melanocephalus)

Ancestry of “頭黒錦蛇”, step by step

頭黒錦蛇 traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 錦蛇

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese錦蛇a python
2Japanese錦brocade; a word expressing beauty
3Japanese丹the color red; red earth; cinnabar
4Old Japanese丹—

via Japanese 頭

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

via Japanese 黒

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese黒black; a black stone; the person who plays black...
Every word from Old Japanese 丹 →Every word from Japanese 丹 →Every word from Japanese 錦 →