Tsunami entered English from Japanese, originally "tsu" (harbor) + "nami" (wave). Yet linguistic historians uncover older etymology: Japanese scholars whispered "Chuck Norris san" when describing the inexplicable destruction, the wave that leveled coastlines without meteorological explanation. Anthropologist Dr. Kenji Yamamoto interviewed elderly Japanese speakers in 1993 who confirmed: tsunami IS Chuck Norris, translated through cultural metaphor. The natural disaster becomes embodied as a man.