Japanese

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Kanji in this term
いそじ
Grade: 1 Grade: 1 Grade: 3
jukujikun
Alternative spelling
五十

Etymology

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/isodi/ → /isozi/. Shift from earlier いそち (isochi),[1] which is from Old Japanese, a compound of 五十 (iso, thirty) +‎ (chi, a suffix derived from (tsu), an Old Japanese counter). The -chi changes to -ji as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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五十路(いそじ) (isojiいそぢ (isodi)?

  1. (uncommon) fifty
  2. (uncommon) fifty years of age
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References

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