峰ろ

Japanese

Etymology

/woro₂/ > /worə/ > /woro/ > /oro/. From noun o (“peak”) + suffix ro.

Noun

峰ろ (hiragana おろ, romaji oro, historical hiragana をろ)

1. a mountain peak
   • c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 14, poem #3468)

     夜麻杼里乃 乎呂能波都乎尓 可賀美可家 刀奈布倍美許曽 奈尓与曽利鶏米

   • c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 14, poem #3501)

     安波乎呂能 乎呂田尓於波流 多波美豆良 比可婆奴流奴留 安乎許等奈多延

See also

• 峰 (o, ne, mine)

References

• 2002 [c. 759], Akihiro Satake; Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, Yoshiyuki Yamazaki, Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 3: Man'yōshū 3 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-240003-4: