老い子
Japanese edit
Etymology edit
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 老 | 子 |
| お Grade: 4 |
こ > ご Grade: 1 |
| kun’yomi | |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 老子 |
Compound of 老い (oi, “old; an elder, an older person”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “the continuative or stem form”) of verb 老いる (oiru, “to age, to become old”)) + 子 (ko, “child”).[1] The ko changes to go as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
First cited to the 狭衣物語 (Sagoromo Monogatari, “The Tale of Sagoromo”, literally “The Tale of the Clothes”), a text from the late 1000s.[1]
The term may be falling out of use, and it is not listed in some dictionaries.[2][3][4][5]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
- ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN