いくぐすり
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Japanese
[edit]| Alternative spellings |
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| 生く薬 生薬 |
Etymology
[edit]Compound of 生く (iku, 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 生く (iku, yodan katsuyō verb)) + 薬 (kusuri, “medicine, drug”).[1]The kusuri changes to gusuri as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- いきぐすり (ikigusuri)
References
[edit]- ^ “いくぐすり”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)
[1] (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, released online 2007, →ISBN, concise edition entry available here (Note: Dialectal meanings, etymological theories, pronunciation including modern, dialectal, and historical information, Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai, historical dictionaries containing this word, and the kanji spellings in those dictionaries have been omitted.)
