he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

(medicine, oncology, pathology) cancer / (figuratively) cancer

death / (law, historical) one of the five punishments under the 律令 (Ritsuryō) system, the methods used are 絞 (kō, “strangling”) and 斬 (zan, “decapitation”)

(onomatopoeia) drizzling

founder, ancestor

ancestor

涸れる: to dry up / 枯れる: of a plant: to wither; to wilt; to die / 枯れる, 嗄れる: of one's voice: to become husky; to become hoarse

dead, dried leaf

earliest ancestor; primogenitor; progenitor / originator; initiator; creator; founder

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend