おもい
thought
A field sat on a heart, and this is what stays up there rather than what you do about it. The same おもい as 重い heavy, which is the point: he asked her, and the asking cost him everything he had: おもい.
The thought or feeling itself, from 思う おもう. Later comes 重い おもい, heavy, which sounds identical.
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