Where does “お腹が空く” come from?
お腹が空く (Japanese) comes from Japanese お腹, from Japanese 中, from Japanese 中今, from Japanese 今 — now; just now; soon.
お腹が空く (Japanese): to become hungry
Definitions
- to become hungry
Ancestry of “お腹が空く”, step by step
お腹が空く traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese お腹
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | お腹 | belly, tummy, stomach, abdomen; a person used as... |
| 2 | Japanese | 中 | middle, medium; average; neither good nor poor;... |
| 3 | Japanese | 中今 | the present, as a privileged moment in eternity |
| 4 | Japanese | 今 | now; just now; soon |
via Japanese が
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | が | Indicates the subject of a sentence; conjunction;... |
| 2 | Finnish | -nka | Forms nouns, mainly bird names (in dialects) and some toponyms |
via Japanese 空く
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 空く | have space between, be open; become empty,... |