Where does “카라” come from?
카라 (Korean) comes from Japanese カラー, from English collar, from Middle English coler, from Old French coler, from Latin collāre, from Latin collāris, from Latin collum, from Latin -is.
카라 (Korean): collar
Definitions
- collar
Ancestry of “카라”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | カラー | color; character, quality; collar |
| 2 | English | collar | Anything that encircles the neck; A piece of meat... |
| 3 | Middle English | coler | A piece of clothing or jewelry for around the... |
| 4 | Old French | coler | collar |
| 5 | Latin | collāre | collar, neckband; chain for the neck |
| 6 | Latin | collāris | neck |
| 7 | Latin | collum | neck, throat; upper stem of a plant; servitude |
| 8 | Latin | -is | suffixed to the root of nouns in composition,... |
| 9 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -ā | Forms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |