Editing Power-up (section)

===Origin===
The term "power-up" is an example of {{Transliteration|ja|[[wasei-eigo]]}} (Japanese pseudo-Anglicisms); the sense was coined in Japanese as a compound of {{Nihongo|"power"|[[wikt:パワー|パワー]]|pawā|noun}} and {{Nihongo|"up"|[[wikt:アップ|アップする]]|appusuru|verb}}, literally "to up someone's or something's power or abilities". The general meaning of ''X-up'' in Japanese is "this will increase your X", and this construction is regularly used in areas such as advertising.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pVxoAAAAIAAJ&q=%22up%22+%22%E5%BA%83%E5%91%8A%22+%22%E5%92%8C%E8%A3%BD%22|title=言語生活|language=Japanese|trans-title=Language Life|author=[[National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics]]|journal=Gengo Seikatsu|publisher=[[Chikuma Shobō]]|date=July–December 1971|access-date=2021-12-29|issue=238–243|page=86|issn=0435-2955|archive-date=2023-02-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206234117/https://books.google.com/books?id=pVxoAAAAIAAJ&q=%22up%22+%22%E5%BA%83%E5%91%8A%22+%22%E5%92%8C%E8%A3%BD%22|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8jMHAQAAIAAJ|title=A Guide to Modern Japanese Loanwords|last=Webb|first=James H. M.|publisher=[[The Japan Times]]|date=1990|access-date=2021-12-29|page=143|isbn=478900502X|archive-date=2021-12-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211229130658/https://books.google.com/books?id=8jMHAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>{{Verify source|reason=Google Books does not let anyone preview the second source, although it is believed to contain relevant keywords.|date=December 2021}}