Where does “jidohsa” come from?

jidohsa (Mokilese) comes from Japanese 自動車, from Japanese 自動, from Japanese 自動詞, from Japanese 詞, from Middle Chinese 詞.

jidohsa (Mokilese): automobile

Definitions

  1. automobile

Ancestry of “jidohsa”, step by step

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