Where does “ilisho” come from?

ilisho (Zulu) comes from Japanese 人力車, from Japanese 人, from Proto-Japonic *pitə — one.

ilisho (Zulu): rickshaw

Definitions

  1. rickshaw

Ancestry of “ilisho”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese人力車a rickshaw
2Japanese人a person, human; an individual; mankind, people
3Proto-Japonic*pitəone
Every word from Proto-Japonic *pitə →Every word from Japanese 人 →Every word from Japanese 人力車 →