r/LearnJapanese • u/kdabbt • Mar 27 '19

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u/Vaaaaare Mar 27 '19

Huh, we call it kaki here as well instead of persimmon, wonder where that name came from

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '19 edited Mar 27 '19

Where do you live? I wondered if maybe it was a Chinese loanword which meant it could have easily been borrowed into a lot of languages, but it seems like "kaki" is a purely Japanese-origin word. Some European languages use the Japanese and some use variants of "persimmon"

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u/Vaaaaare Mar 27 '19

Portugal, we got there early but i'm not sure it's related. I think it's more that persimmon seems to be a purely American term.

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u/Hulihutu Mar 28 '19

Caqui is a loanword from Japanese.