いく

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Japanese

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of いく – see the following entries.
【育】3
raise; bring up; grow up
【郁】J
fragrant; sweet-smelling
cultured; refined
【畏懼】
(literary) awe
(literary) to fear; to be struck with awe
【偉躯】
(rare) a big body
【行く】
to go; to come to one's place
to (a letter) be delivered
to depart
to rely (on a method)
(年が〜) to age
(うまく〜) to go well
(auxiliary, usually spelled in hiragana) After the て-form of a verb:
to continue to do something; to go on to do something
to gradually do something
イく: (slang) to have an orgasm, to come, to cum
Alternative spellings
往く, ゆく, イく
(This term, いく (iku), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as いく, see Category:Japanese kanji read as いく.)

(The following entry is uncreated: 粥.)

Pronunciation

Etymology 2

Various.

Prefix

いく • (iku-) 

  1. 生, 活: (attaches to nouns) vigorous, lively, powerful
  2. 幾: (attaches to nouns) implies an indeterminate amount: several, many, much, a lot

Verb

いく • (iku) †yodan

  1. 生く: to be alive; to come back to life; to be vigorous, to be lively; to make something live, to plant something

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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