やけざけ

Japanese

Alternative spellings
自棄酒
焼け酒
やけ酒
ヤケ酒

Etymology

From 自棄(やけ) (yake) + 酒(さけ) (sake). The sake changes to zake as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Noun

やけざけ • (yakezake) ←やけざけ (yakezake)?

  1. alcohol to drink away one's sorrows

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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