Where does “歯止めがかかる” come from?

歯止めがかかる (Japanese) comes from Japanese 歯止め, 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.

歯止めがかかる (Japanese): to be limited, to be restrained

Definitions

to be limited, to be restrained

Ancestry of “歯止めがかかる”, step by step

歯止めがかかる traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 歯止め

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Japanese	歯止め	brake; drag; skid; pawl
2	Japanese	止め	stopping
3	Japanese	連用形	an inflectional category: the continuative or...
4	Japanese	見る	to see, to watch, to observe, to look at...
5	Japanese	夢	a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state...
6	Old Japanese	夢	a dream
7	Japanese	目	an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger...
8	Middle Chinese	目	—

via Japanese が

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Japanese	が	Indicates the subject of a sentence; conjunction;...
2	Finnish	-nka	Forms nouns, mainly bird names (in dialects) and some toponyms

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