Where does “samurajsvärd” come from?
samurajsvärd (Swedish) comes from Swedish 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.
samurajsvärd (Swedish): a samurai sword
Definitions
- a samurai sword
Ancestry of “samurajsvärd”, step by step
samurajsvärd traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish samuraj
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | samuraj | samurai |
| 2 | Japanese | 侍 | a warrior class in medieval and pre-modern Japan;... |
| 3 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 4 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 5 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 6 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 7 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 8 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |