誉田

Japanese

Kanji in this term
誉	田
ほむ Grade: S	た > だ Grade: 1
irregular	kun’yomi

Alternative spelling
譽田 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

As Nihonshōki states, ホムタ was a synonym to 鞆, a special leather bracelet worn by archers. No Japanese etymology was found to this word (誉 and 田 are ateji). Alexander Vovin proposed a Koreanic etymology of this word which in Modern Korean would've given a word like *팔무닥, from 팔, 묻다 and a noun-forming -악 suffix found, for example, in words like 가락, with a matching literal meaning of "arm-coverer".

Proper noun

誉(ほむ)田(だ) • (Homuda) ^{←ほむた (fomuta)?}

1. a placename, often spelled as ほんだ, as in 誉田駅.
2. personal name of Japan's 15th emperor Ōjin.