肯んずる

Japanese

Kanji in this term
がえ
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Etymology

Contraction of (かえ) (kae) + (ni, negative suffix) + (su, to do). The original meaning was “to not consent”.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) えんず [gàéńzúꜜrù] (Nakadaka – [4])[2]
  • IPA(key): [ɡa̠ẽ̞nd͡zɨɾɯ̟]

Verb

(がえ)んずる • (gaenzuruがへんずる (gafenzuru)?transitive suru (stem (がえ)んじ (gaenji), past (がえ)んじた (gaenjita))

  1. to consent (to something), to accept, to allow

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ 肯んずる”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
  2. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1974), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Second edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō