Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
おお
Grade: S
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
被う
蔽う
蓋う
掩う

Etymology edit

/opu pu//opopu//ofofu/ → */owou//oːu/

From the Old Japanese verb 覆ふ (opu, cover from above) + (-fu, auxiliary verb modifier, expressing repetition or ongoing state).[1]

Pronunciation edit

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "覆う"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
覆う おう [òóú]
Imperative (命令形) 覆え おえ [òóé]
Key constructions
Passive 覆われる おわれる [òówárérú]
Causative 覆わせる おわせる [òówásérú]
Potential 覆える おえる [òóérú]
Volitional 覆おう おお [òóóꜜò]
Negative 覆わない おわない [òówánáí]
Negative perfective 覆わなかった おわなかった [òówánáꜜkàttà]
Formal 覆います おいま [òóímáꜜsù]
Perfective 覆った おった [òóttá]
Conjunctive 覆って おって [òótté]
Hypothetical conditional 覆えば おえ [òóéꜜbà]

Verb edit

(おお) (ōuおほふ (ofofu)?transitive godan (stem (おお) (ōi), past (おお)った (ōtta))

  1. to cover
    (くも)(とう)(おう)(おお)
    kumo ga Tōō o ōu
    clouds cover eastern Europe
    (みち)(ゆき)(おお)われています
    michi wa yuki de ōwarete imasu
    the road is covered with snow
  2. to cover up, to conceal, to hide
  3. to permeate, to spread throughout
  4. to include everything (Can we verify(+) this sense?)

Conjugation edit

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ Robert E. Morrell (2002) Early Kamakura Buddhism: A Minority Report (Nanzan Studies in Religion and Culture), Jain Publishing Company, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.