Where does “катакана” come from?

катакана (Russian) comes from Japanese 片仮名, from Japanese 仮名, from Japanese 名, from Middle Chinese 名 — name.

катакана (Russian): katakana

Definitions

  1. katakana

Ancestry of “катакана”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese片仮名Katakana, a set of Japanese syllabary characters,...
2Japanese仮名a category of Japanese syllabary scripts: kana; a...
3Japanesename; reputation; famous, great, noted
4Middle Chinesename
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