わぬ

Japanese

Etymology

Eastern dialect. Cognate with 我 (ware).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [β̞a̠nɯ̟]

Pronoun

わぬ • (wanu) 

1. 我: (archaic) first person personal pronoun; I, me, oneself
   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 14, poem 3476:

     宇倍兒奈波 和奴尓故布奈毛 多刀都久能 努賀奈敝由家婆 故布思可流奈母 或本歌末句曰 奴我奈敝由家杼 和奴賀由乃敝波

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   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 20, poem 4358:

     於保伎美乃 美許等加志古美 伊弖久礼婆 和努等里都伎弖 伊比之古奈波毛

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

• Satake, Akihiro with Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, and Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 3: Man’yōshū 3 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 2002, →ISBN.
• Satake, Akihiro with Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, and Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 4: Man’yōshū 4 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 2003, →ISBN.