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蛋白質
たんぱくしつ
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Tanpakushitsu is 蛋白 (tanpaku, “egg white”) plus 質 (-shitsu, “material”), with 蛋白 a semantic loan from German Eiweiß.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “From 蛋白(たんぱく) (tanpaku, “egg white”) + 質(しつ) (-shitsu, “material”); the use of 蛋白 is a semantic loan from German Eiweiß.”
Source: Wiktionary: 蛋白質 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
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- 外来語 Loanword
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- Compound
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- Borrowing
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