すごろく

Japanese

Alternative spelling
双六

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Etymology

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Particularly: “Possible use of ご for its medial 鼻濁音 value /ŋ/? Why specifically for this term in an irregular context? Unique chronological origin timeline compared to other standard borrowings of MC coda /-ŋ/? Colloquial pronunciation (as it was a popular game) vs. scholarly systematic borrowings of MC rime tables? Related to history of the game itself?”

From Middle Chinese 雙六 (MC sraewng ljuwk).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) すごろく [sùgórókú] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [sɨɡo̞ɾo̞kɯ̟]

Noun

すごろく • (sugoroku)

(board games) Sugoroku, a Japanese board game with dice, like backgammon.

Hyponyms

盤(ばん)双(すご)六(ろく) (bansugoroku)
絵(え)双(すご)六(ろく) (esugoroku)

Meronyms

振(ふ)り出(だ)し (furidashi)

References

^ 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

[NHK-1] 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

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