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Where does “鹿猪” come from?

鹿猪 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 猪, from Japanese の, from Old Japanese の, from Middle Chinese 能 — talent, ability.

鹿猪 (Japanese): babirusa

Definitions

  1. babirusa

Ancestry of “鹿猪”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese猪a wild boar, "Sus scrofa"; a pig or wild boar;...
2Japaneseのgenitive case marker; nominative case marker in a...
3Old Japaneseの—
4Middle Chinese能talent, ability
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