Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
うごめ
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Etymology edit

うご (ugo, an ideophone also found in the verb (うご) (ugoku) and the adverb うごうご (ugougo)) + めく (-meku, to show signs of, to have the appearance of, to look like, to seem like, a verb-forming suffix)[1]

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

(うごめ) (ugomekuintransitive godan (stem (うごめ) (ugomeki), past (うごめ)いた (ugomeita))

  1. squirm

Conjugation edit

References edit

  1. ^ 蠢く”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten)[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN