海松

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Alternative spellings
海松 (kyūjitai) 水松

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Codium fragile

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海松 (miru): Codium fragile, a kind of edible seaweed.

⟨mi₁ru⟩ → */mʲiru/ → /miru/

From Old Japanese, appearing in the Man'yōshū poetry anthology of roughly 759 CE.^[1] Further derivation unknown.

The kanji spelling literally means “sea pine”.

海松(みる) or 海松(ミル) • (miru)

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as ミル.

Derived terms

Alternative spelling
海松 (kyūjitai)

Compound of 海 (umi, “sea”) +‎ 松 (matsu, “pine”).^[1]^[2]

First cited to roughly 935 CE.^[1]

海(うみ)松(まつ) • (umimatsu)

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 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 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

From Proto-Japonic *meru. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

海松 (mi₁ru) (kana みる)