English

Little Tokyo

From little + Tokyo.

A compound of little + Tokyo

Proto-Indo-European *lewd- ‘to bend’

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Proto-West Germanic *lūtan ‘to bow down’

Proto-West Germanic *lūtil

Old English lȳtel ‘small’

Middle English litel

Japanese 東京

English Tokyo

Today it means

noun A neighborhood or a community that is predominantly Japanese.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Little Tokyo