Japanese

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Kanji in this term

Grade: 6
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 *ərəi. Compare Proto-Ryukyuan *ore.

Verb

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()れる (oreruichidan (stem () (ore), past ()れた (oreta))

  1. (dialect, Iwate, Akita, Kyūshū) Nonstandard form of 降りる (oriru).

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