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だっこ

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Japanese

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Alternative spelling
抱っこ

Etymology

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Baby talk.[1][2][3][4][5]

Possibly a corruption of daku koto, from 抱く (daku, to hug, to carry or hold in one's arms) + (koto, fact, action, instance),[1][2][3] or of just 抱く (daku, to hug, to hold in one's arms).[5]

First appears in texts from the 1830s.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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だっこ (dakko

  1. (childish) a hug, a hold, a carry

Derived terms

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Verb

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だっこする (dakko surusuru (stem だっこ (dakko shi), past だっこした (dakko shita))

  1. (childish) to hug, to carry or hold in one's arms

Conjugation

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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. 4.0 4.1 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
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN