泣き止む

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 泣き止む, read なきやむ, compounds crying 泣き with cessation verb 止む.
• Basic usage: It describes a crying person stopping, as in 子どもが泣き止む.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Forms and inflection
  • It is a compound of the continuative form of 泣く and 止む; it is not a transitive verb meaning to make someone stop crying.