senzo

a word from vocabulary Japanese by Christopher K. Schmidt  
Word form senzo
Original script 先祖
LWT meaning(s)
Comments on word variant sosen 祖先 (1717)
Analyzability analyzable compound
Gloss sen-zo before-ancestor
Age Old Japanese [21] (710–794)
Lexical stratum kango
Year 続日本記 霊亀元年 (715)
Comparison with Mandarin different frequency
Register General
Numeric frequency 0