Where does “朝寝坊” come from?

朝寝坊 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 寝坊, from Japanese 寝る, from Japanese 寝, from Middle Chinese 寢.

朝寝坊 (Japanese): oversleeping in the morning; one who sleeps late...

Definitions

  1. oversleeping in the morning; one who sleeps late...

Ancestry of “朝寝坊”, step by step

朝寝坊 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 寝坊

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese寝坊oversleeping; one who sleeps late or oversleeps;...
2Japanese寝るto sleep
3Japanese寝sleep, sleeping; to sleep
4Middle Chinese寢—

via Japanese 朝

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese朝the morning; the morning, morn; the morrow, next...
2Old Japanese朝the morning, morn; the morrow, next morning
3Proto-Japonicasamorning
Every word from Middle Chinese 寢 →Every word from Japanese 寝 →Every word from Japanese 寝る →