Etymology

fudepen

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Today it means: Synonym of brush pen. Full definition →

Japanese 筆ペン ← English pen
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The story

  1. English · derived frompen
  2. Japanese · borrowed from筆ペン
  3. English todayfudepen

Borrowed from Japanese 筆ペン (fudepen), a compound of 筆 (fude, “brush”) and ペン (pen, from English pen).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.