Where does “didiwsa” come from?

didiwsa (Rukai) comes from Japanese 自動車, from Japanese 自動, from Japanese 自動詞, from Japanese 詞, from Middle Chinese 詞.

didiwsa (Rukai): automobile; motor vehicle; car

Definitions

  1. automobile; motor vehicle; car

Ancestry of “didiwsa”, 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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