Where does “紅葉” come from?
紅葉 (Old Japanese) comes from Japanese 連用形, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.
紅葉 (Old Japanese): the turning of leaves in autumn; the turned...
Definitions
- the turning of leaves in autumn; the turned...
Ancestry of “紅葉”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 2 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 3 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 4 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 5 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 6 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |