Where does “息切れ” come from?

息切れ (Japanese) comes from Japanese 息, from Japanese いきづまる — to be breathtaking.

息切れ (Japanese): breathlessness; get short of breath, get out of...

Definitions

  1. breathlessness; get short of breath, get out of...

Ancestry of “息切れ”, step by step

息切れ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 息

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese息to stop, to cease; breath, breathing
2Japaneseいきづまるto be breathtaking

via Japanese 切れる

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese切れるbe cut off, break, snap, burst, collapse; be cut,...
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