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Old Japanese
Etymology
Compare modern Okinawan ぬーじ (nuːdʑi) and Miyako ぬず (nudzɿ).
Noun
ぬじ (nuzi)
- a rainbow
- Synonym: のじ (nozi)
720, Nihon Shoki, Emperor Tenmu part 2, eleventh year of reign , fifth day of the eighth month in autumn:丙寅、造二法令一殿內、有二大虹一。- On the day of the Fire Tiger, laws were drawn within the palace, and there was a large rainbow.
720, Nihon Shoki, Emperor Tenmu part 2, eleventh year of reign , seventeenth day of the eighth month in autumn:戊寅、亦地震動。是日平旦、有レ虹、當二于天中央一、以向レ日。- On the day of the Earth Tiger, there was another earthquake. On dawn this day, there was a rainbow at the middle of the sky, opposite the sun.
Descendants
- >? Japanese: 虹 (nuji → niji)