遠江

Etymology
→ * → → * → * → * →

Originally from, where literally means "far freshwater lake"; a compound of  +  +  +  (compare modern Japanese reflexes , , ). The resulting vowel clusters and  were reduced into  and  and the word went through regular sound shifts from Old Japanese to Modern Japanese, resulting in its modern form.

The intermediate form was recorded in Man'yōshu Book 14, poem 3429.

See the etymology of and  for more details.

Proper noun

 * , present-day western part of Shizuoka prefecture