緒ろ

Japanese

Kanji in this term
緒
お Grade: S

Alternative spelling
緖ろ (kyūjitai)

Etymology

/woro₂/ → /worə/ → /woro/ → /oro/. From noun 緒 (o, “thread”) + suffix ろ (ro).

Noun

緒(お)ろ • (oro) ^{←をろ (woro)?}

1. a thin, long thread
   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 14, poem 3466:

     麻可奈思美 奴礼婆許登尓豆 佐祢奈敝波 己許呂乃緒呂尓 能里弖可奈思母

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See also

• 緒(お) (o)

References

• Satake, Akihiro with Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, and Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 3: Man’yōshū 3 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 2002, →ISBN.