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Japanese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Japanese.[2][1]
Ultimate derivation unclear. Some theories derive this clan sense as a Japanese compound of 株 (kabu, “stock, root”) + 根 (ne, “root, origin”) or 名 (na, “name”). However, the required /u/ → /a/ sound shift would be unusual.
Another thought is that this might be a borrowing from, or somehow otherwise related to, Korean 골품 (golpum), a Sino-Korean term also spelled 骨品 (literally “bones + goods”), the name for a kind of kinship hierarchy that was prevalent in the Silla kingdom. This latter theory and its related bone sense might also account for the homophony with 屍, 尸 (kabane, “corpse, dead body”).
Noun
かばね • (kabane)
- 姓: clan
- Synonym: 氏 (uji)
- (historical) a kind of hereditary title bestowed to clans in ancient Japan
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Etymology 2
From Old Japanese. Appears in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.[3]
Probably cognate with kabane (“clan”) above.
Noun
かばね • (kabane)
- 尸, 屍: corpse, dead body
- Synonyms: 屍, 尸 (shikabane), 死骸 (shigai)
- 尸, 屍: (after full decomposition) a skeleton, bones
- Synonym: (skeleton) 骸骨 (gaikotsu)
- 尸: short for 尸冠 (shikabane kanmuri), the 尸 radical
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