Where does “みをやつす” come from?

みをやつす (Japanese) comes from Japanese 身, from Japanese み, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.

みをやつす (Japanese): to be absorbed in

Definitions

  1. to be absorbed in

Ancestry of “みをやつす”, step by step

みをやつす traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanesea body; a living body; a dead body, a corpse
2Japanese身 body; 実 fruit; nut; content; 霊, 神 spirit; god
3Japanese見るto see, to watch, to observe, to look at...
4Japanesea dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state...
5Old Japanesea dream
6Japanesean order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger...
7Middle Chinese

via Japanese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1JapaneseA case particle; A conjunctive particle, usually...
2Proto-Japonicwoaccusative marker; away from, off
Every word from Middle Chinese Every word from Japanese Every word from Old Japanese
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