WOLD -

sekai

a word from vocabulary Japanese vocabulary by Christopher K. Schmidt

Borrowed status	1. clearly borrowed
Comments	(818) in 文華秀麗集, Buddhist term, borrowed from Chinese, where it might have been a calque for the Sanskrit term lokhadātu.
Source words	shìjiè 'World' Chinese lokhadātu 'World' Sanskrit
Effect	Coexistence
Salience	present in pre-contact environment
Contact situation	Chinese bilingualism [21]