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bakudan
a word from vocabulary
Japanese
by
Christopher K. Schmidt
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Word form
bakudan
Original script
爆弾
LWT meaning(s)
the bomb
Analyzability
analyzable compound
Gloss
baku-dan explode-bullet
Age
Modern Japanese [21] (1868–2007)
Lexical stratum
kango
Year
1881
Register
General
Numeric frequency
9.5
Loanword Information
Borrowed status
4. very little evidence for borrowing
Comments
According to 五国対照兵語字書〔西周〕(1884), a loan translation of German Bombe. Modern Mandarin uses zhàdàn.
Source words
Bombe
'bomb'
German
Unidentifiable
Chinese
Effect
No information
Salience
Present in pre-contact environment
Contact situation
Sinicization (possible neologism) [21]
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