Where does “鎌倉” come from?

鎌倉 (Old Japanese) comes from Old Japanese 竈 — oven.

鎌倉 (Old Japanese): a placename on the southeastern part of modern Kanagawa Prefecture

Definitions

  1. a placename on the southeastern part of modern Kanagawa Prefecture

Ancestry of “鎌倉”, step by step

鎌倉 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old Japanese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Japaneseoven

via Old Japanese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Japanesesaddle

Words derived from “鎌倉

Every word from Old Japanese