おしろ

Japanese

Phrase

おしろ • (oshiro) 

  1. 御城, お城: honorific form of 城 (shiro, “castle”)

Etymology 2

From non-central dialects of Old Japanese that haven't undergone the vowel rising <*o → u> for some reason, ultimately from Proto-Japonic *osiro.

Noun

おしろ • (oshiro) 

  1. 後ろ: (now rare, dialectal, Iwate, Hachijō, Kansai, Shikoku, Izumo, etc.) Nonstandard form of 後ろ (ushiro, “back, behind, rear”).
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