Where does “鼾臥す” come from?

鼾臥す (Japanese) comes from Japanese 鼾, from Middle Chinese 鼾.

鼾臥す (Japanese): to sleep while snoring

Definitions

  1. to sleep while snoring

Ancestry of “鼾臥す”, step by step

鼾臥す traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 鼾

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese鼾snoring, a snore; to snore; snoring
2Middle Chinese鼾—

via Japanese 臥す

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese臥すto lie down; to sleep
Every word from Middle Chinese 鼾 →Every word from Japanese 鼾 →