Talk:目ん玉

Pitch accent

@Fytcha, in response to your edit comment, I can't find 目ん玉 in any of my resources, full stop. I'm not familiar with the word in speech, so I can't say anything about it from my own subjective experience.

That said, if we assume that the mentama reading inherits the same pitch pattern as un-abbreviated me no tama, then this would presumably be both atamadaka and odaka, which is what Daijirin, NHK, and Shinmeikai all list for me no tama, such as:

めのたま【目の玉】[1][4]

HTH! ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 18:50, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

As a native speaker of Japanese (Tōkyō dialect), I pronounce mentama with nakadaka [3]. And I think mentama with [1][4] are unnatural. Lugriaルグリア [会話／貢献] 08:14, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

@Eirikr: Thank you for checking. So it wasn't only my sources that didn't contain this word (despite being fairly common). Strange. It should, however, have crossed my mind to also check 目の玉; now I know!

@Lugria: Thank you a lot for your input! I think we should leave it as nakadaka. — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 08:51, 26 January 2023 (UTC)