禊ぐ

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
禊
みそ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Etymology

*⟨mi₁ so₂so₂ɡu⟩ → *⟨mi₁so₂ɡu⟩ → */misəɡu/ → /misoɡu/

From Old Japanese, continuative form misogi first attested in the Kojiki (712 CE).

Derivation likely unknown, no known phonetic spellings attested in ancient literature.

mi is likely 水 (/mi₁/, “water”) instead of 身 (/mi₂/, “body”). See also Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai for more detail on ancient spellings.
sosogu (probably rendered as */səsəɡu/ in Old Japanese) is definitely 注ぐ (sosogu, “to pour over”), compare 濯ぐ (susugu, “to rinse”).

Verb

禊(みそ)ぐ • (misogu) intransitive ^†yodan

(Shinto, archaic) to perform misogi (purification ritual, ablution)
- c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 3, poem 420:
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  　天(あまの)川原(かはら)尓(に)出(いで)立(たち)而(て)潔身(みそぎ)而(て)麻之乎(ましを)高山(たかやま)乃(の)石(いは)穂(ほ)乃(の)上(うへ)尓(に)伊(い)座(ませ)都類香物(つるかも) [Man'yōgana]
  [...]　天(あま)の川原(かはら)に出(い)で立(た)ちてみそぎてましを高山(たかやま)の巌(いはほ)の上(うへ)にいませつるかも [Modern spelling]
  ...ama no kawara ni ide-tachite misogite mashi o takayama no iwao no ue ni imasetsuru ka mo
  ...to purify myself and pray on the Heavenly River's shore I must leave him lying among the rocks of that lofty hill!

Derived terms

禊(みそぎ) (misogi, “Shinto water purification ritual”)

References

^ Japanese Classics Translation Committee (2012) 1000 Poems from the Manyōshū: The Complete Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai Translation, Dover Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 25

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