Etymology

-san

Today it means: Honorific ending used to indicate that a person is Japanese, talking with a Japanese, or treated like a Japanese. Full definition →

Japanese さん
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed fromさん“Mr, Ms”
  2. English today-san

Borrowed from Japanese さん (san, “Mr, Ms”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.