I can't understand 「からの」 in this sentence: 他の言葉からの転用が多い


The sentence comes from a video about why Japanese language has so many
pronouns.

> 日本語代名詞の特徴として他の言葉 **からの** 転用が多いということが挙げられます

The translation for this from the same video is:

> "We can infer that personal pronouns in Japanese differ from those of other
> languages in that they change very often"

So, what I can't understand is this: 他の **言葉からの転用** が多い : Seeing the
translation, I guess 言葉 means 言語 here, right? so, does it mean something like:

> 「日本語代名詞の特徴として他の言語と比べて転用が多い」?

at least that's what I see.




That translation is not accurate, and I believe this 言葉 means "word" rather
than "language".

> 日本語代名詞の特徴として他の言葉からの転用が多いということが挙げられます。
>
> (lit.) As a charasteristic of Japanese pronouns, one can list (the fact)
> that there are many borrowings from other (Japanese) words.
>
> One of the characteristics of Japanese pronouns is that many of them are
> derived words from other (Japanese) words.

転用 is a noun meaning "derived usage", "borrowing", etc. In case you don't know
からの by itself, see [this](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/33605/5010).

If I understand correctly, this sentence is saying many Japanese "pronouns"
are etymologically derived words. For example, かのじょ is 彼 ("that") + 女
("woman"), あなた is 彼 ("that") + 方 ("place"), きさま is 貴 ("precious") + 様
(honorific suffix), and so on. This is also why some believe Japanese personal
pronouns are not really pronouns (see the discussion in the comment section).

