やけざけ

Japanese

Alternative spellings
自棄酒 焼け酒 やけ酒 ヤケ酒

Etymology

From 自棄(やけ) (yake) + 酒(さけ) (sake). The sake changes to zake as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) やけざけ [yàkézáké] (Heiban – [0])
• (Tokyo) やけ​ざけ [yàkéꜜzàkè] (Nakadaka – [2])
• IPA^(key): [ja̠ke̞za̠ke̞]

Noun

やけざけ • (yakezake) ^{←やけざけ (yakezake)?}

1. alcohol to drink away one's sorrows