火食い鳥

Japanese

Kanji in this term
火	食	鳥
ひ Grade: 1	く Grade: 2	とり > どり Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Alternative spellings
火食鳥食火鶏

Etymology

火 (hi, “fire”) +‎ 食い (kui, “eating”, stem of 食う (kuu, “to eat”)) +‎ 鳥 (tori, “bird”)

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ひくいどり [hìkúꜜìdòrì] (Nakadaka – [2])^[1]^[2]
IPA^(key): [çi̥kɯ̟ido̞ɾʲi]

Noun

火(ひ)食(く)い鳥(どり) or 火食(ヒク)い鳥(ドリ) • (hikuidori) ^{←ひくひどり (fikufidori) or ヒクヒドリ (fikufidori)^?}

a southern cassowary

Derived terms

パプア火(ひ)食(く)い鳥(どり) (Papua hikuidori)

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN