オンス

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Dutch ons,[1][2] with some sources also listing English ounce.[1][3] Considering that English ounce would have been borrowed as アウンス (aunsu), the Dutch origin seems more likely.

First cited to 1886.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

オンス • (onsu) 

  1. (measurement) ounce
    • 1990 June 25 [1990 February 17], George Morikawa, “Round(ラウンド) ４(フォーア)　うれし涙(なみだ) [Round 4: Tears of Joy]”, in はじめの一(いっ)歩(ぽ) THE(ザ) FIGHTING(ファイティング)! [The First Step: THE FIGHTING!], 3rd edition, volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN, page 123:
      彼(かれ)のグローブも 12(じゅうに)オンスだった　それでもブロックした腕(うで)がこの通(とお)りさ
      Kare no gurōbu mo jūni-onsu datta sore demo burokku shita ude ga kono tōrisa
      He was using 12-ounce gloves too, and yet my blocking arms still got beaten up like this.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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