Etymology

cumai

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Today it means: A construction method for brazing steel sheets together by sandwiching copper sheets between them and performing an ersatz forge weld, for making Japanese-style blade steel. This method is used to add ornamental copper accents into forge-worked steel, such as a copper wave in a display blade. Full definition →

translingual Cu ← Japanese 枚
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  1. Japanese · derived from枚“まい, mai”
  2. translingual · derived fromCu
  3. English todaycumai

From translingual Cu (copper) + Japanese 枚 (“まい, mai”) (sheet). Modeled after gomai (“5 sheets”) and sanmai (“3 sheets”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.