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megane
a word from vocabulary
Japanese
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Christopher K. Schmidt
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Word form
megane
Original script
眼鏡
LWT meaning(s)
the spectacles/glasses
Analyzability
analyzable compound
Gloss
me-kane eye-metal
Age
Middle Japanese [21] (1185–1603)
Lexical stratum
wago
Year
羅葡日辞書 (1595)
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Loanword Information
Borrowed status
5. no evidence for borrowing
Comments
There is a high possibility that this term was formed after the Chinese yănjìng 眼鏡“glasses”. There is also a much rarer used Sino-Japanese loan gankyō.
Source words
yănjìng 眼鏡
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