Fun fact: The verb 踏む ("to tread") can also mean "to worship" when used in a religious context, which is probably what the elves would do to the wine made by Ai-chan crushing grapes with her breasts, given how large breasts are venerated in this world.
Fun fact: The verb 踏む ("to tread") can also mean "to worship" when used in a religious context, which is probably what the elves would do to the wine made by Ai-chan crushing grapes with her breasts, given how large breasts are venerated in this world.
Doesn't that only apply to places of worship or the act of visiting them, not towards any object of worship?
Doesn't that only apply to places of worship or the act of visiting them, not towards any object of worship?
Yeah, 踏む in this sense means to visit a Shinto shrine or Buddhist temple to pray for something. And this sense is usually restricted to idioms like 御百度を踏む, i.e. "to perform the hundred-visit prayer (to wish for something to happen)".
This is derived from one of the more general meanings of 踏む to mean "to visit someplace". As in to "set foot" somewhere. This is itself derived from the literal meaning of 踏む "to step on something", which is ultimately where all the meanings of 踏む are derived from anyway.
If you just use 踏む to mean "worship" without the proper idiomatic "hundred times" context you're going to make people go "huh" and think you're talking about literally stepping on things. Or people.
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