黄葉づ

Japanese
Kanji in this term
黄 葉
もみ
Grade: 2 Grade: 3
jukujikun
Alternative spelling
黃葉づ (kyūjitai)

Alternative forms

Etymology

⟨mo(1)mi1tu⟩ → */mʷomʲitu/ → */moʷmʲidu/ → /momid͡ʑu/ → /momizu/

Shift from Old Japanese verb 黄葉つ (momitu → momitsu), from 四段活用 (yodan katsuyō, “quadrigrade conjugation”) to 上二段活用 (kami nidan katsuyō, “upper bigrade conjugation”) in Middle Japanese.[1][2]

The kanji spelling means 黄葉 (“yellow + leaf”).

Verb

黄葉づ(もみず) • (momizu) ←もみづ (momidu)?intransitive †nidan

  1. (of leaves, archaic) to change colors in autumn (usually in the case of the 黄 kanji, "to yellow", as opposed to 紅, "to redden")
    • 905, Kokin Wakashū (book 6, poem 340)
      雪(ゆき)降(ふ)りて年(とし)の暮(く)れぬる時(とき)にこそつひにもみぢぬ松(まつ)も見(み)えけれ
      yuki furite toshi no kurenuru toki ni koso tsui ni momijinu matsu mo miekere
      It is in the season when the year draws to a close beneath falling snow that the pine reveals itself unaltered in hue to the end.[3]
    Synonym: 黄葉する (kōyō suru, momiji suru)

Derived terms

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. Esperanza U. Ramirez-Christensen (1994) Heart's Flower: The Life and Poetry of Shinkei, annotated edition, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 411
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