Japanese edit

Alternative spelling
喚く

Etymology edit

(wa, onomatopoeia[1][2]) + めく (-meku, to show signs of, to have the appearance of, to look like, to seem like, a verb-forming suffix[2][3])

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

わめく (wamekuintransitive godan (stem わめき (wameki), past わめいた (wameita))

  1. to scream (to make the sound of a scream)

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  3. ^ わめく”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten)[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  4. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN