Etymograph

English

keikaku

Keikaku comes from Japanese 計画 ‘plan’.

  1. Japanesemodern計画keikaku‘plan’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2019keikaku

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Japanesemodern計画keikaku‘plan’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2019keikaku

Earliest quotation: 2019, Dalton O'Dell, Let's Make a Comic!: “Marie, I broke out of HELL to see my…”

The story

Borrowed from Japanese 計画 (keikaku, “plan”), in reference to a meme parodying overly literal fansubs in which a line from Death Note is rendered as "Just according to keikaku. (Translator's note: keikaku means plan)".

Every English word from Japanese 計画

Today it means

noun A plan, particularly a devious or complicated one.

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Etymograph / Japanese 計画 / keikaku

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