Where does “상하다” come from?

상하다 (Korean) comes from Korean ―하다.

상하다 (Korean): to go bad (sour, rotten), to get stale

Definitions

  1. to go bad (sour, rotten), to get stale

Ancestry of “상하다”, step by step

상하다 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Korean ―하다

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Korean―하다

via Korean 상(傷)

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Korean상(傷)
Every word from Korean ―하다