峰ろ

Japanese

Kanji in this term
峰
お Grade: S
kun'yomi

Etymology

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

Noun

峰(お)ろ • (oro) ^{←をろ (woro)^?}

a mountain peak
- c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 14, poem 3468:
  夜麻杼里乃乎呂能波都乎尓可賀美可家刀奈布倍美許曽奈尓与曽利鶏米
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 14, poem 3501:
  安波乎呂能乎呂田尓於波流多波美豆良比可婆奴流奴留安乎許等奈多延
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

See also

峰 (o, ne, mine)

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.