旅人

旅人

1. (literary) traveller (e.g. hotel guest, passenger, etc.)
2. (literary) itinerant
3. (literary) common people
4. (archaic) official

• (traveller):

Compound of 旅 (tabi, “travel”) +‎ 人 (hito, “person”).^[1][2] The hito changes to bito as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

• (Tokyo) たびびと (Heiban – )^[2]
• IPA^(key):

旅(たび)人(びと) • (tabibito) 

1. one who travels: a traveler

For the traveler sense, the tabibito reading is the most common in modern Japanese.

Either an alteration of tabibito above,^[1][2] or a compound of 旅 (tabi, “travel”) +‎ 人 (to, “person”, suffixing form).^[1] Compare the formation of 隼人 (hayato, name of an ancient ethnic group in Japan, literally “hawk people”), 東人 (azumato, “easterner”).

• IPA^(key):

旅(たび)人(と) • (tabito) 

1. (archaic) one who travels: a traveler

*/tapiputo/ → */tabibuto/ → /tabiudo/

Compound of 旅 (tabi, “travel”) +‎ 人 (udo, “person”).

The term 人 (hito, “person”) appears in various older compounds with a root form of 人 (*puto → *buto → *udo, *puto → *futo → *uto). This form is never seen in isolation, and it often undergoes further phonetic changes to combine with preceding vowels. Compare the formation of 仲人 (nakōdo), from naka + udo; 素人 (shirōto), from shiro + uto; 玄人 (kurōto), from kuro + uto.

• IPA^(key):

旅(たび)人(うど) • (tabiudo) 

1. (archaic) one who travels: a traveler

*/tapiputo/ → */tabibuto/ → /tabiudo/ → /tabjuːdo/

Alteration from tabiudo above.^[1] Compare the formation of 仲人 (nakōdo), from naka + udo; 素人 (shirōto), from shiro + uto.

• IPA^(key):

旅人(たびゅうど) • (tabyūdo) ^{←たびうど (tabiudo)?}

1. (uncommon) one who travels: a traveler

Compound of 旅 (tabi, “travel”) +‎ 人 (nin, “person; type of person”, using the Chinese-derived goon reading).^[1][2]

• (Tokyo) たびにん (Heiban – )^[2]
• IPA^(key):

旅(たび)人(にん) • (tabinin) 

1. one who is constantly going from one place to another:
   1. a migrant worker
   2. an itinerant, especially someone like a gambler, mountebank or peddler

• (the general sense of someone who doesn't stay in one place very long): 渡(わた)り鳥(どり) (wataridori); 渡(わた)り者(もの) (watarimono)

From later Middle Chinese compound 旅人 (ljo^X ȵʑjen, literally “travel + person”). Compare modern Mandarin reading lǚrén.

• (Tokyo) りょじん (Heiban – )^[2]
• IPA^(key):

旅(りょ)人(じん) • (ryojin) 

1. in ancient China, an official title, referring to a commoner in an official government position
2. one who travels: a traveler