Etymology

Meaco

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Today it means: A late medieval name for Kyoto, a city of Japan. Full definition →

Japanese 都
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from都“capital”
  2. English todayMeaco

Borrowed from Japanese 都 (miyako, “capital”), as the city was formerly the capital of Japan.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.