Where does “자동차 열쇠” come from?

자동차 열쇠 (Korean) comes from Korean 자동차, 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 열쇠 (Korean): car key

Definitions

  1. car key

Ancestry of “자동차 열쇠”, step by step

자동차 열쇠 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Korean 자동차

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Korean자동차automobile, car
2Chinese自動車automobile; motor car
3Japanese自動車automobile, car, motorcar
4Japanese自動automatic movement, automatic functioning;...
5Japanese自動詞intransitive verb
6Japaneseword; word; part of speech
7Middle Chinese

via Korean 열쇠

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Korean열쇠key
Every word from Middle Chinese Every word from Japanese 自動Every word from Japanese 自動詞
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