カムコーダー

Etymology
Japanese sources are inconsistent regarding the derivation.


 * Some references record this as a borrowing from, as a portmanteau of  + .  However, Japanese-language references do not list any first date.
 * The Japanese Patent Office records this as a registered trademark for Sony, first applied for in 1981.

The term seems to appear first in any language in the early 1980s, and references for 🇨🇬 record the first citations from 1981, consistent with the possibility that this was coined by Sony.

Considering the phonetics, this does appear to be a coined within Japanese as. If this were a borrowing from English, the first mora would likely be instead, as in other borrowings from English such as, , , or.

Noun

 * 1)  a camcorder