🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

最初

Pronunciation / Transliteration: saisho

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
First/fɜːrst/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"これが私の最初の仕事です。"

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As adjective
  1. 1

    Coming before all others in time, order, or rank.

    "She was the first person to arrive at the meeting."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old English 'fyrest', meaning 'foremost' or 'first', originating from Proto-Germanic '*furistaz', the superlative form of 'for'. Historically used to designate precedence in time, order, or importance, evolving across Germanic languages with consistent semantic roots.

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