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Where does “токийский” come from?

токийский (Russian) comes from Russian То́кио, from Serbo-Croatian Токио//Tokio, from Japanese 東京, from Vietnamese Đông Kinh, from Middle Chinese 東 — east.

токийский (Russian): Tokyo

Definitions

  1. Tokyo

Ancestry of “токийский”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1RussianТо́кио—
2Serbo-CroatianТокио//Tokio—
3Japanese東京an eastern capital
4VietnameseĐông Kinh—
5Middle Chinese東east
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