Tanım
•姓: clan · a kind of hereditary title bestowed to clans in ancient Japan
Etimoloji
From Old Japanese. Ultimate derivation unclear. Some theories derive this clan sense as a Japanese compound of 株 (kabu, “stock, root”) + 根 (ne, “root, origin”) or 名 (na, “name”). However, the required /u/ → /a/ sound shift would be unusual. Another thought is that this might be a borrowing from, or somehow otherwise related to, Korean 골품 (golpum), a Sino-Korean term also spelled 骨品 (literally…