Where does “mikado” come from?

mikado (Spanish) comes from Japanese 御門, from Japanese 御, from Middle Chinese 御.

mikado (Spanish): mikado

Definitions

  1. mikado

Ancestry of “mikado”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese御門mikado
2Japanese"indicates that the is honorific"; often used to...
3Middle Chinese
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