Where does “자동차” come from?

자동차 (Korean) comes from Chinese 自動車, from Japanese 自動車, from Japanese 自動, from Japanese 自動詞, from Japanese 詞, from Middle Chinese 詞.

자동차 (Korean): automobile, car

Definitions

  1. automobile, car

Ancestry of “자동차”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Chinese自動車automobile; motor car
2Japanese自動車automobile, car, motorcar
3Japanese自動automatic movement, automatic functioning;...
4Japanese自動詞intransitive verb
5Japanese詞word; word; part of speech
6Middle Chinese詞—

Words derived from “자동차”

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