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Where does “やけ” come from?
やけ (Japanese) comes from Japanese は, from Old Japanese は.
やけ
(Japanese): despair, desperation
Definitions
despair, desperation
Ancestry of “やけ”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Japanese
は
what about, where is; Inserted between two verbs...
2
Old Japanese
は
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