変若つ

Japanese

Kanji in this term
Grade: 4 Grade: 6
jukujikun
Alternative spellings
變若つ (kyūjitai)
復つ

Etymology

/wotu//otu/.

From Old Japanese 復つ (wotu). Related to (おとこ) (otoko) and 乙女(おとめ) (otome).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [o̞t͡sɨ]

Verb

変若() • (otsuをつ (wotu)?godan (stem 変若() (ochi), past 変若()った (otta))

  1. to become young, to return to an origin or original state
    • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 5, poem 847:
      和我佐可理 伊多久々 多知奴 久毛尓得夫 久須利波武等母 麻多遠知米也母
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 6, poem 1034:
      従古 人之言來流 老人之 變若云水曾 名尓負瀧之瀬
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. to be reborn
    • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 4, poem 650:
      吾妹児者 常世国尓 住家良思 昔見従 変若益尓家利
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

References

  • Satake, Akihiro with Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, and Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 1: Man’yōshū 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 1999, →ISBN.
  • Satake, Akihiro with Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, and Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 2: Man’yōshū 2 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 2000, →ISBN.