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Etymology 1
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Etymology 2
→ * →

From, from. Cognate with. Now the modern Japanese term for.

Probably cognate with.

May also be cognate with, perhaps from the “visually prominent feature” sense, and with suppositional / volitional verb suffix (presenting in modern Japanese verb conjugations as the -ō or -yō endings), perhaps from the “seem like, look like” sense.

Noun

 * 1)   eye
 * 2)   visually prominent feature of something:
 * 3)   small hole, like those inherent to a net-like material (between the warp and the weft)
 * 4)    experience
 * 1)   small hole, like those inherent to a net-like material (between the warp and the weft)
 * 2)    experience
 * 1)    experience
 * 1)    experience
 * 1)    experience
 * 1)    experience
 * 1)    experience
 * 1)    experience
 * 1)    experience
 * 1)    experience

Suffix

 * 1)   -st, -nd, -rd, or -th, for ordinal numbers (e.g. 8th or eighth, 9th or ninth)
 * 2)   visually prominent feature of something
 * 3)   to a more exaggerated degree
 * 1)   to a more exaggerated degree
 * 1)   to a more exaggerated degree

Etymology 3
From. First attested in the  of 712.

Possibly cognate with, perhaps from the “visually prominent feature” sense of that term.

Noun

 * 1)   bud, sprout, shoot
 * 2)   the germ of an idea, an inkling
 * 3)    a bird embryo: more specifically, as found on the yolk of an egg, the blastodisk, the germinal disk, the embryonic disk

Etymology 4
First cited to  from the early 1300s.

Might be a shift in usage of. The spelling does not appear to be common, and this is not included in all dictionaries.