The story
- Middle Chinese · derived from劍“sword”
- Japanese · borrowed from剣道“the way of the sword”
- English todaykendo
Borrowed from Japanese 剣道 (kendō, “the way of the sword”), from Middle Chinese 劍 (kjæ̀m, “sword”) + 道 (dáu, “way”). Doublet of kumdo.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.