にくづき

Japanese

Etymology 1

Alternative spellings
肉付き
肉付 (dated)
肉づき

From 肉(にく) (niku) + 付(つ)き (tsuki, “連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 付(つ)く (tsuku).”). The tsuki changes to zuki as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) にくづき [nìkúzúkí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ɲ̟ikɯ̟zɨkʲi]

Noun

にくづき • (nikuzuki) ←にくづき (nikuduki)?

  1. build (of the body); the way in which one has flesh and body

See also

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of にくづき – see the following entry.
【肉月】
[noun] The kanji component 月, appearing on the left, etymologically 肉 (“meat; flesh”) and used in words related to the body.
(This term, にくづき (nikuzuki), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)

References

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