Where does “止め” come from?

止め (Japanese) comes from Japanese 連用形, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.

止め (Japanese): stopping

Definitions

  1. stopping

Ancestry of “止め”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese連用形an inflectional category: the continuative or...
2Japanese見るto see, to watch, to observe, to look at...
3Japanese夢a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state...
4Old Japanese夢a dream
5Japanese目an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger...
6Middle Chinese目—

Words derived from “止め”

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