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Japanese
Etymology 1
Shift from あたし (atashi).[1][2][3]
Pronunciation
Pronoun
あたい • (atai)
- (informal) first-person pronoun: I, me
2008, “⑨destiny ～ ずっとチルノのターン”, in bit (lyrics), Rebirth, performed by Silver Forest:
- ⑨～って言わないで アタイは最強だも～ん
- Marukyũ tte iwanaide Atai wa saikyō da mo~n
- Don't call me ⑨, because I'm the strongest
- (Kagoshima, dialect) first-person pronoun: I, me
Usage notes
The first sense is considered quite effeminate, generally limited to girls and young women of the Shitamachi area of Tokyo, or to workers of the red light district.
Etymology 2
| For pronunciation and definitions of あたい – see the following entry.
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(This term, あたい (atai), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
For a list of all kanji read as あたい, see Category:Japanese kanji read as あたい.)
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Etymology 3
| For pronunciation and definitions of あたい – see the following entry: 直
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(The following entry is uncreated: 直.)
References
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ 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