むえんぼとけ

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Japanese[edit]

Alternative spelling
無縁仏

Etymology[edit]

From 無縁(むえん) (muen) + 仏(ほとけ) (hotoke). The hotoke changes to botoke as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Tokyo) むえんぼ​とけ [mùéńbóꜜtòkè] (Nakadaka – [4])[1]
  • IPA(key): [mɯ̟ᵝẽ̞mbo̞to̞ke̞]

Noun[edit]

むえんぼとけ • (muenbotoke) ←むえんぼとけ (muenbotoke)?

  1. decedent without carers

References[edit]

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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