English
kissaten
Kissaten comes from Japanese 喫茶店 ‘tea-drinking shop’.
- Japanesemodern喫茶店kissaten‘tea-drinking shop’
- Englishearliest quotation 2003kissaten
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Japanesemodern喫茶店kissaten‘tea-drinking shop’
- Englishearliest quotation 2003kissaten
Earliest quotation: 2003, Ernest Schaal, Protestor Damages Enola Gay: “We went Christmas shopping around the eki, saw all…”
The story
Borrowed from Japanese 喫茶店(きっさてん) (kissaten, literally “tea-drinking shop”).
Every English word from Japanese 喫茶店
Today it means
noun A type of Japanese coffee shop.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Japanese 喫茶店 / kissaten