Where does “積ん読” come from?
積ん読 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 読 — reading; to read, reading.
積ん読 (Japanese): the act of leaving a book unread after buying it, typically piled up together with other such unread books
Definitions
- the act of leaving a book unread after buying it, typically piled up together with other such unread books
Ancestry of “積ん読”, step by step
積ん読 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese 読
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 読 | reading; to read, reading |
via Japanese 積む
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 積む | to pile up, to heap up, to stack up |