Where does “匙を投げる” come from?
匙を投げる (Japanese) comes from Japanese 匙, from Japanese 茶, from Japanese 葉, from Middle Chinese 葉.
匙を投げる (Japanese): to throw in the towel, to give up, to quit
Definitions
- to throw in the towel, to give up, to quit
Ancestry of “匙を投げる”, step by step
匙を投げる traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese 匙
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 匙 | spoon, scoop; a scoop for food; a wooden sword... |
| 2 | Japanese | 茶 | tea; brown |
| 3 | Japanese | 葉 | leaf, needle, blade; a season, an age: a shorter... |
| 4 | Middle Chinese | 葉 | — |
via Japanese を
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Japanese | を | A case particle; A conjunctive particle, usually... |
| 2 | Proto-Japonic | wo | accusative marker; away from, off |