むえんぼとけ

Japanese edit

Alternative spelling
無縁仏

Etymology edit

From 無縁(むえん) (muen) + (ほとけ) (hotoke). The hotoke changes to botoke as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation edit

  • (Tokyo) えんぼとけ [mùéńbóꜜtòkè] (Nakadaka – [4])[1]
  • IPA(key): [mɯ̟ᵝẽ̞mbo̞to̞ke̞]

Noun edit

むえんぼとけ (muenbotokeむえんぼとけ (muenbotoke)?

  1. decedent without carers

References edit

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN