意趣返し

Japanese

Compound of 意趣 (ishu, “grudge”) +‎ 返し (kaeshi, “a returning, a return”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 返す (kaesu, “to return something”)).^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] The kaeshi changes to gaeshi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

First cited in a text from 1711.^[1]

意(い)趣(しゅ)返(がえ)し • (ishugaeshi) ^{←いしゆがへし (isyugafesi)^?}

[from 1711] revenge, retaliation
Synonyms: 意趣晴らし (ishubarashi), 仕返し (shikaeshi), 復讐 (fukushū), 返報 (henpō), 報復 (hōfuku)

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 “意趣返”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎^[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
^ “意趣返し”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎^[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ 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