Where does “歯止めをかける” come from?
歯止めをかける (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.
歯止めをかける (Japanese): to curb, to halt, to put an end to
Definitions
- to curb, to halt, to put an end to
Ancestry of “歯止めをかける”, step by step
歯止めをかける 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 | — |