English
Jap
Jap comes from English Japanese.
- English1500–presentJapanese
- Englishearliest quotation 1872Jap
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history not traced here.
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- English1500–presentJapanese
- Englishearliest quotation 1872Jap
Earliest quotation: 1872, James Brooks, A Seven Months' Run: “Among our Japs on board are two returning from…”
The story
Clipping of Japanese, attested as a noun since 1872, and adjectivally since 1878.
Every English word from English Japanese
Today it means
name The Japanese language.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / English Japanese / Jap