むえんぼとけ

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Japanese

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Alternative spelling
無縁仏

Etymology

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From 無縁(むえん) (muen) + 仏(ほとけ) (hotoke). The hotoke changes to botoke as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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むえんぼとけ • (muenbotoke) ←むえんぼとけ (muenbotoke)?

  1. decedent without carers

References

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  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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