紅葉ず

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Etymology 1

/momitu/ > /momidu/. The final -tu voices to -du. In modern Japanese, the distinction between /tu, du/ no longer exists, and /du/ automatically becomes [zu]. From earlier momit-.

Verb

紅葉ず (intransitive, godan conjugation, hiragana もみず, romaji momizu, historical hiragana もみづ)

  1. for leaves to change colors in autumn

Etymology 2

From older quadragrade verb momid-. Conjugation shifted to upper bigrade momid-.

Verb

紅葉ず (intransitive, hiragana もみず, romaji momizu, historical hiragana もみづ)

  1. for leaves to change colors in autumn
Derived terms
Last modified on 4 June 2009, at 11:01