Japanese

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Kanji in this term

Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Etymology

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From a non-central dialect of Old Japanese which has undergone the vowel change <*əi → e₂> instead of <*əi → i₂>, from Proto-Japonic *əkəi. Compare Proto-Ryukyuan *oke.

Verb

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()ける (okeruichidan (stem () (oke), past ()けた (oketa))

  1. (dialect, Kyūshū) Nonstandard form of 起きる (okiru).

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