Where does “яндан” come from?
яндан (Mongolian) comes from Chinese 煙筒, from Japanese 煙, from Japanese 連用形, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.
яндан (Mongolian): chimney, whistle, horn
Definitions
- chimney, whistle, horn
Ancestry of “яндан”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese | 煙筒 | chimney; stovepipe; smokestack; old-style opium... |
| 2 | Japanese | 煙 | smoke |
| 3 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 4 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 5 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 6 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 7 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 8 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |