Where does “당멸치” come from?

당멸치 (Korean) comes from Korean 당, from Chinese 糖.

당멸치 (Korean): Hawaiian ladyfish (Elops hawaiensis)

Definitions

  1. Hawaiian ladyfish (Elops hawaiensis)

Ancestry of “당멸치”, step by step

당멸치 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Korean

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Koreanjustice; this; that; the already mentioned thing;...
2Chinese

via Korean 멸치

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Korean멸치anchovy
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