Where does “歯止め” come from?
歯止め (Japanese) comes from Japanese 止め, from Japanese 連用形, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.
歯止め (Japanese): brake; drag; skid; pawl
Definitions
- brake; drag; skid; pawl
Ancestry of “歯止め”, step by step
歯止め traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese 止め
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 止め | stopping |
| 2 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 3 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 4 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 5 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 6 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 7 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |