めくるめく

Japanese
Alternative spelling
目眩く

Alternative forms
  • (nonstandard) めくりめく (mekurimeku), めぐるめく (megurumeku), めぐりめく (megurimeku)

Etymology

め (me, “eye”) + 眩(くるめ)く (kurumeku, from くる (kuru, an ideophone[1]) + めく (-meku, “to show signs of, to have the appearance of, to look like, to seem like”, a verb-forming suffix))

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) めくるめ​く [mèkúrúméꜜkù] (Nakadaka – [4])[1][2][3]
  • IPA(key): [me̞kɯ̟ᵝɾɯ̟ᵝme̞kɯ̟ᵝ]

Verb

めくるめく • (mekurumeku) ←めくるめく (mekurumeku)?intransitive godan (stem めくるめき (mekurumeki), past めくるめいた (mekurumeita))

  1. (chiefly adnominal) to become dizzy
    めくるめく高(たか)さ
    mekurumeku takasa
    dizzying height
    (literally, “height where one becomes dizzy”)

Conjugation
Conjugation of "めくるめく" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") めくるめか mekurumeka
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") めくるめき mekurumeki
Shūshikei ("terminal") めくるめく mekurumeku
Rentaikei ("attributive") めくるめく mekurumeku
Kateikei ("hypothetical") めくるめけ mekurumeke
Meireikei ("imperative") めくるめけ mekurumeke
Key constructions
Passive めくるめかれる mekurumekareru
Causative めくるめかせる
めくるめかす		 mekurumekaseru
mekurumekasu
Potential めくるめける mekurumekeru
Volitional めくるめこう mekurumekō
Negative めくるめかない mekurumekanai
Negative continuative めくるめかず mekurumekazu
Formal めくるめきます mekurumekimasu
Perfective めくるめいた mekurumeita
Conjunctive めくるめいて mekurumeite
Hypothetical conditional めくるめけば mekurumekeba

See also

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 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
  3. Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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