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Japanese
Etymology
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Borrowed from Dutch ons, with some sources also listing English ounce. Considering that English ounce would have been borrowed as アウンス (aunsu), the Dutch origin seems more likely.
First cited to 1886.
Pronunciation
Noun
オンス • (onsu)
- (measurement) ounce
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- 彼のグローブも 12オンスだった それでもブロックした腕がこの通りさ
- 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
- ↑ 1.0 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
- ↑ 2.0 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
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
