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Where does “samurajka” come from?

samurajka (Slovak) comes from Slovak samuraj, from Japanese 侍, from Japanese 連用形, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.

samurajka (Slovak): a female samurai; a samurai's wife

Definitions

  1. a female samurai; a samurai's wife

Ancestry of “samurajka”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Slovaksamuraja member of a feudal Japanese warrior class, a...
2Japanese侍a warrior class in medieval and pre-modern Japan;...
3Japanese連用形an inflectional category: the continuative or...
4Japanese見るto see, to watch, to observe, to look at...
5Japanese夢a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state...
6Old Japanese夢a dream
7Japanese目an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger...
8Middle Chinese目—
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