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用 |
もち Grade: 2 |
kun’yomi |
First attested in texts around the Kamakura period, persisting until around the script reforms in the 1920s.
The attestable root verb is 用ゐる (mochiwiru), itself a compound (see that entry for details). During the mid-Heian period, medial /-f-/ sounds shifted to /-w-/, leading to confusion between mid-word ゐ (wi) and ひ (wi, read as fi in word-initial position). The もちひる (mochiwiru) hiragana spelling was then reinterpreted as a conjugation of base verb もちふ (mochi(w)u), which appears as a back-formation. Later during the Kamakura and Muromachi periods, sound changes reduced medial /-w-/ still further, such that /wi/ merged into /i/. The resulting shift in the verb ending from -wiru to -iru was reinterpreted again as a conjugation of base form もちゆ (mochiyu), which again appears as a back-formation.
用ひる • (mochīru) ←もちひる (motifiru)?transitive ichidan (stem 用ひ (mochī), past 用ひた (mochīta))
Stem forms | |||
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Irrealis (未然形) | 用ひ | もちひ | motifi |
Continuative (連用形) | 用ひ | もちひ | motifi |
Terminal (終止形) | 用ひる | もちひる | motifiru |
Attributive (連体形) | 用ひる | もちひる | motifiru |
Realis (已然形) | 用ひれ | もちひれ | motifire |
Imperative (命令形) | 用ひよ | もちひよ | motifiyo |
Key constructions | |||
Negative | 用ひず | もちひず | motifizu |
Contrasting conjunction | 用ひれど | もちひれど | motifiredo |
Causal conjunction | 用ひれば | もちひれば | motifireba |
Conditional conjunction | 用ひば | もちひば | motifiba |
Past tense (firsthand knowledge) | 用ひき | もちひき | motifiki |
Past tense (secondhand knowledge) | 用ひけり | もちひけり | motifikeri |
Perfect tense (conscious action) | 用ひつ | もちひつ | motifitu |
Perfect tense (natural event) | 用ひぬ | もちひぬ | motifinu |
Perfect-continuative tense | 用ひたり | もちひたり | motifitari |
Volitional | 用ひむ | もちひむ | motifimu |