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とせ

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Japanese

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Etymology 1

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Alternative spelling

/to2se/ → /tose/

From Old Japanese.[1] Likely a shift in pronunciation from (とし) (toshi).

Pronunciation

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Suffix

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とせ (-toseとせ (-tose)?

  1. (obsolete) used to count years
    • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 5, poem 880:
      , text [1]:
      阿麻社迦留(あまざかる)比奈尓伊都(ひなにいつ)等世(とせ)周麻比都都(すまひつつ)美夜故能提夫利(みやこのてぶり)和周良延尓家利(わすらえにけり)
      Amazakaru, hina ni itsu tose, sumahitsutsu, miyako no teburi, wasuraenikeri
      While living five years in the far-remote countryside, I wound up forgetting the manners of the capital
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Proper noun

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とせ or トセ (Tose

  1. a unisex given name
  2. 伊勢, 戸瀬, 登瀬: a surname
  3. 歳瀬, 翔星: a female given name
  4. 登勢: a unisex given name

References

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  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN