かみだのみ

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Japanese

Alternative spelling
神頼み

Etymology

From 神(かみ) (kami) + 頼(たの)み (tanomi, “連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 頼(たの)む (tanomu).”). The tanomi changes to danomi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Noun

かみだのみ • (kamidanomi) 

  1. asking the gods for help

References

  1. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
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