あやめる

Japanese

Alternative spellings
危める
殺める

Etymology

/ajamu//ajamuru//ajameru/

First attested in the late Muromachi period.[1]

Possibly cognate with 危うい (ayaui, dangerous, perilous).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) やめ [àyáméꜜrù] (Nakadaka – [3])[2]
  • IPA(key): [a̠ja̠me̞ɾɯ̟ᵝ]

Verb

あやめる • (ayameru) ichidan (stem あやめ (ayame), past あやめた (ayameta))

  1. 危める: to wound
  2. 危める, 殺める: to kill

Conjugation

References

  1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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