意気込み

Japanese

Alternative spelling
意氣込み (kyūjitai)

Compound of 意気(いき) (iki, “disposition; spirit, courage, confidence”) + 込(こ)み (komi, “going in; being full of”, the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 込(こ)む (komu, “to go in; to be full of”).).^[1]^[2] The komi changes to gomi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

First cited to a text from 1656.^[1]

意(い)気(き)込(ご)み • (ikigomi)

enthusiasm, eagerness, zeal, spirit
Synonyms: 気勢 (kisei), 熱情 (netsujō), 情熱 (jōnetsu), 熱意 (netsui)

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN