いのちがけ

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Japanese

Alternative spellings
命懸け
命掛け
命がけ

Etymology

From 命(いのち) (inochi) + 懸(か)け (kake, “連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 懸(か)ける (kakeru).”). The kake changes to gake as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Noun

いのちがけ • (inochigake) 

  1. indifference to potential loss to life; recklessly dangerous

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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