Illustration: Inside a long-established Japanese woodworking shop, an elderly craftsperson has taken an old hand tool from its storage box to explain the origin of a workshop term.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

語ご源げん

gogen

word origin, etymology

Example sentences

  1. これらの語ごは同おなじ語源ごげんから出でている。

    These words are derived from the same root.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. それの語源ごげんって知しってる？

    Do you know its etymology?

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 「ウメ」の語源ごげんには諸説しょせつある。

    There are various stories about the origin of 'ume.'

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 語源

  • 語word; speechOnゴKunかたる・かたらう
  • 源source; originOnゲンKunみなもと

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