いかだ

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See also: いかた, and いがた

Japanese

桴 (ikada): a raft on a river in Germany.
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Alternative spellings
筏
桴 (uncommon)
栰 (rare)

Etymology

From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.[1][2]

Appears to be a compound. One proposed derivation might be from 厳し (ikashi, stem of Old Japanese adjective ikashi, “grand, large”) +‎ 板 (ita, “board”), with ikashi ita shifting to ika ita and then ikada.[3][4]

Pronunciation

Noun

いかだ or イカダ • (ikada) 

  1. 筏, 桴, 栰: a raft
  2. 筏, 桴, 栰: a raft armor
  3. 筏, 桴, 栰: a 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) shaped like a raft
  4. 筏, 桴, 栰: a skewered baby-eel kabayaki

References

  1. ^ Omodaka, Hisataka (1967) 時代別国語大辞典 上代編 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN, page 66
  2. ^
    c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 1, poem 50:
    , text here
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 “いかだ 【筏・桴・栰】Paid subscription required”, in 日本国語大辞典‎ (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2000-2002, released online 2007, →ISBN, concise edition entry available here
    Etymology theories listed in the entry:
    1. イカはウカブ（浮）の語根の転。タはイタ（板）の上略〔大言海〕。ウキテ（浮木手）の義〔言元梯〕。
    2. イカは大の意。タはヒラタのタで、竹木を編んだ大型のものの意〔東雅〕。イカイタ（大板）の義〔日本の言葉＝新村出〕。イカイタ（厳板）の合言〔古言類韻＝堀秀成〕。
    3. イカタ（烏賊手）の義〔和訓栞〕。
    4. イカツマの義。イは発語。カツマはヒマナクカタメ（無間堅目）の義のマナシカツマのカツマ〔名言通〕。
    5. ウキタナ（浮棚）の約転〔日本釈名〕。
  4. ^ Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
  5. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  6. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Old Japanese

Etymology

Appears to be a compound. One proposed derivation might be from 厳し (ikashi, stem of Old Japanese adjective ikashi, “grand, large”) +‎ 板 (ita, “board”), with ikashi ita shifting to ika ita and then ikada.[1][2]

Noun

いかだ (ikada)

  1. a raft
  2. a boat

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:いかだ.

References

  1. ^ “いかだ 【筏・桴・栰】Paid subscription required”, in 日本国語大辞典‎ (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2000-2002, released online 2007, →ISBN, concise edition entry available here
    Etymology theories listed in the entry:
    1. イカはウカブ（浮）の語根の転。タはイタ（板）の上略〔大言海〕。ウキテ（浮木手）の義〔言元梯〕。
    2. イカは大の意。タはヒラタのタで、竹木を編んだ大型のものの意〔東雅〕。イカイタ（大板）の義〔日本の言葉＝新村出〕。イカイタ（厳板）の合言〔古言類韻＝堀秀成〕。
    3. イカタ（烏賊手）の義〔和訓栞〕。
    4. イカツマの義。イは発語。カツマはヒマナクカタメ（無間堅目）の義のマナシカツマのカツマ〔名言通〕。
    5. ウキタナ（浮棚）の約転〔日本釈名〕。
  2. ^ Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
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