みそじ

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Japanese

Alternative spellings
三十
三十歳
三十路

Etymology

/misodi/ → /misozi/. Shift from earlier みそち (misochi),[1] which is from Old Japanese, a compound of 三十 (miso, “thirty”) +‎ ち (chi, a suffix derived from つ (tsu), an Old Japanese counter). The -chi changes to -ji as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Noun

みそじ • (misoji) ←みそぢ (misodi)?

  1. (uncommon) thirty
  2. (uncommon) thirty years of age

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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