緒ろ

Japanese

Kanji in this term
緒
お Grade: S

Alternative spelling
緖ろ (kyūjitai)

Etymology

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

Noun

緒(お)ろ • (oro) ^{←をろ (woro)^?}

a thin, long thread
- c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 14, poem 3466:
  麻可奈思美奴礼婆許登尓豆佐祢奈敝波己許呂乃緒呂尓能里弖可奈思母
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

See also

緒(お) (o)

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.