Resource for Etymology of Japanese Words

[covert snow]

Is there a resource (book or website perhaps) for etymology / mnemonics of Japanese words to make learning words easier? Something that helps one to understand how individual kanji combine to create a specific meaning. Examples of words: 地下鉄, 銀行

[tiny palm]

<@&1248039856404431062> Resource for Etymology of Japanese Words

[nova garnet]

Wiktionary sometimes has stuff but its not always 100% accurate

In general it's OK though

[nova garnet]

Japanese Stackexchange is a great place to ask, as well

[obtuse rose]

I use this site for an etymology of the kanji : https://www.chinese-characters.org/ (it's for chinese charaxcters, but the etymology remains the same of course).

[covert snow]

Yes, I'm familiar with this resource, but unfortunately it seems like there isn't etymology information for many/most words.

[covert snow]

Thanks this is a great resource that I hadn't thought to use yet!

[covert snow]

Thanks this seems like a great resource similar to koohi, but it seems like it doesn't have mnemonics for compound words (like 地下鉄 and 銀行), unless I'm missing something?

[obtuse rose]

Indeed, only single characters are explained.

[copper oasis]

just go on your favorite search engine and type in (word) + 由来

there's a dictionary for yomitan made from one of these such sites, gogen yurai

for most words it's kind of obvious though and for others it's unclear

I don't think it'll help much in learning though honestly

[covert snow]

I couldn't find it in Shoui's Yomitan Dictionary Collection on google drive, where can I find this dict?

[copper oasis]

it's probably there

if not check here

i found it pretty useless

[covert snow]

wow fastest response ever

[covert snow]

alright so the second one is the gogen yurai and the first one is from forum posts? Do you know what kind of forum posts? I'll probably need to translate the entries with with a translator, but these should help a lot! Thx

[copper oasis]

i listed the sources somewhere

theyre just random forum posts

they're not important