•to securely insert, inject, stick into, sandwich between, pinch / catch / hold between, especially such that it does not easily come out · to put in between, to put in the middle · to possess, to hold, to accompany
to pinch; to clamp; to press (from both sides) · synonym of kẹt
köken: Related to nẹp through an infixed form. Compare also cặp, gắp, ghép, kép, khép.
Etimoloji
Likely from Old Japanese. First attested in isolation with unambiguous phonetics in 950. Also attested in compound verb sashihasamu in the Kojiki of 712, but the relevant section of text is written in kundoku (a kind of written Classical Chinese read out in Japanese) in the ideographic spelling 刺挟, and the phonetic realization as Japanese is not clearly attested until later. Derivationally, this…