Etymology

chialat

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Hokkien 食力
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  1. Hokkien · borrowed from食力“to be exhausting”
  2. English todaychialat

Borrowed from Hokkien 食力 (chia̍h-la̍t, “to be exhausting”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.