Where does “泥沼化” come from?

泥沼化 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 泥沼, from Japanese 沼, from Japanese 間, from Middle Chinese 間.

泥沼化 (Japanese): bogging down; bog down

Definitions

  1. bogging down; bog down

Ancestry of “泥沼化”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese泥沼muddy swamp; bog; the situation in which one is...
2Japanese沼a swamp, a bog, a marsh, a wetland
3Japanese間interval; "suffixes some expressions of time to...
4Middle Chinese間—
Every word from Middle Chinese 間 →Every word from Japanese 間 →Every word from Japanese 沼 →