The story
- English · derived fromgame
- Japanese · borrowed from鬱ゲー“depressing game”
- English todayutsuge
Borrowed from Japanese 鬱ゲー (utsuge, “depressing game”), a combination of 鬱 (utsu, “melancholy, gloom”) and ゲー (gē), a shortening of ゲーム (gēmu, “game”), itself from English game.
Words from the same roots
Englishgame all →
moegenakigenukige
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.