蹴ゑる

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: S
kun’yomi

Etymology

Shift from earlier 下二段活用 (shimo nidan katsuyō, lower bigrade conjugation) verb form 蹴う (kuu).

There is some textual evidence that this kweru form may have already been in use in the late Heian period, as recorded in the Ruiju Myōgishō.[1]

This eventually fell out of use as the kwe phoneme collapsed into ke, resulting in the modern form 蹴る (keru).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) く𛅑 [kwéꜜrù] (Atamadaka – [1])
  • IPA(key): [kɰᵝe̞ɾɯ̟ᵝ]

Verb

()ゑる • (kweru) transitive ichidan (stem () (kwe), past ()ゑた (kweta))

  1. (archaic, possibly obsolete) Early Middle Japanese and early Late Middle Japanese form of 蹴る (keru, to kick)

Conjugation

References

  1. ”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten) (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
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