悲しい

Etymology
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From, ultimately from. Attested once in the ' of 720, and amply in the ', completed in 759.

Originally meant "dear, beloved, lovely", in addition to "sad". The former senses were later taken over by other adjectives such as and. See also the Ryukyuan cognates such as 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, which do not mean "sad".

Considering the original sense of "emotionally overwhelming", might be cognate with, from the semantic overlap with worrying.

Adjective

 * 1)  sad, sorrowful