Where does “벼메뚜기” come from?

벼메뚜기 (Korean) comes from Korean 벼 — rice plant, paddy.

벼메뚜기 (Korean): Oxya chinensis sinuosa, a species of grasshopper native to Korea

Definitions

  1. Oxya chinensis sinuosa, a species of grasshopper native to Korea

Ancestry of “벼메뚜기”, step by step

벼메뚜기 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Korean 벼

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Korean벼rice plant, paddy

via Korean 메뚜기

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Korean메뚜기(literally, "meadow hopper") short-horned grasshopper, locust
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