Where does “사무라이” come from?
사무라이 (Korean) comes from Japanese 侍, from Japanese 連用形, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.
사무라이 (Korean): samurai
Ancestry of “사무라이”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 侍 | a warrior class in medieval and pre-modern Japan;... |
| 2 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 3 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 4 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 5 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 6 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 7 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |