Where does “心身” come from?

心身 (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.

心身 (Japanese): mind and body; psychosomatic

Definitions

  1. mind and body; psychosomatic

Ancestry of “心身”, step by step

心身 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 身

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

via Japanese 心

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese心mind, heart, spirit, soul; thoughts, ideas;...
2Old Japanese心heart, mind, spirit; emotion, feeling; heart,...
3Proto-Japonic*kəkərəheart
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