Etymology

andosol

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Japanese 暗 ← Latin -sol
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The story

  1. Latin · derived from-sol“soil”
  2. Japanese · derived from暗“dark”
  3. English todayandosol

From Japanese 暗 (“dark”) + 土 (“soil”) + Latin -sol (“soil”).

Words from the same roots

Japanese暗 all →

andisol

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.