Wiktionary

みみしい

Japanese edit

Alternative spellings
聾 (rare)
耳癈 (rare)

Etymology edit

Compound of 耳 (mimi, “ear; sense of hearing”) +‎ 癈 (shii, “loss of faculty: numbness, blindness, deafness, etc.”, compounding element, originally the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of Old Japanese verb 癈ふ (shipu), modern 癈いる (shiiru, “to lose a sense: to go numb, blind, deaf, etc.”)).[1][2][3]

First attested in the late 800s.[1]

Pronunciation edit

  • Pitch accent uncertain.

Noun edit

みみしい • (mimishī) ←みみしひ (mimisifi)?

  1. 聾, 耳癈: [late 800s – ???] (archaic, possibly obsolete) deafness, deaf
    Synonyms: (current) 聾 (rō), つんぼ (tsunbo, derogatory), 難聴 (nanchō)
  2. 聾, 耳癈: [late 800s – ???] (archaic, possibly obsolete) a deaf person
    Synonyms: (current) 聾者 (rōsha), 強度難聴者 (kyōdo nanchōsha, literally “severely hearing-impaired person”)

References edit

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “聾・耳癈”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. ^ “癈”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎[2] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  3. ^ “癈いる”, in デジタル大辞泉‎[3] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
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