変若つ
Japanese
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 変 | 若 |
| お | |
| Grade: 4 | Grade: 6 |
| jukujikun | |
| Alternative spellings |
|---|
| 變若つ (kyūjitai) 復つ |
Etymology
/wotu/ → /otu/.
From Old Japanese 復つ (wotu). Related to 男 (otoko) and 乙女 (otome).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [o̞t͡sɨ]
Verb
変若つ • (otsu) ←をつ (wotu)?godan (stem 変若ち (ochi), past 変若った (otta))
- 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)
- 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
| Katsuyōkei ("stem forms") | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Mizenkei ("imperfective") | 変若た | おた | ota |
| Ren’yōkei ("continuative") | 変若ち | おち | ochi |
| Shūshikei ("terminal") | 変若つ | おつ | otsu |
| Rentaikei ("attributive") | 変若つ | おつ | otsu |
| Kateikei ("hypothetical") | 変若て | おて | ote |
| Meireikei ("imperative") | 変若て | おて | ote |
| Key constructions | |||
| Passive | 変若たれる | おたれる | otareru |
| Causative | 変若たせる 変若たす |
おたせる おたす |
otaseru otasu |
| Potential | 変若てる | おてる | oteru |
| Volitional | 変若とう | おとう | otō |
| Negative | 変若たない | おたない | otanai |
| Negative continuative | 変若たず | おたず | otazu |
| Formal | 変若ちます | おちます | ochimasu |
| Perfective | 変若った | おった | otta |
| Conjunctive | 変若って | おって | otte |
| Hypothetical conditional | 変若てば | おてば | oteba |
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.