Japanese edit

Alternative spellings
三十
三十歳
三十路

Etymology edit

/misodi/ → /misozi/. Shift from earlier みそち (misochi),[1] which is from Old Japanese, a compound of 三十 (miso, thirty) +‎ (chi, a suffix derived from (tsu), an Old Japanese counter). The -chi changes to -ji as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

みそじ (misojiみそぢ (misodi)?

  1. (uncommon) thirty
  2. (uncommon) thirty years of age

Related terms edit

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006) 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN