申す

⟨mawosu⟩ → */mawusu/ → /mausu/ → /mɔːsu/ → /moːsu/

Shift from Old Japanese 申す (mawosu),^[1][2] Late Old Japanese mausu.

• (Tokyo) もーす (Atamadaka – )^[2][3][4]
• IPA^(key):

申(もう)す • (mōsu) ^{←まうす (mausu)?}transitive godan (stem 申(もう)し (mōshi), past 申(もう)した (mōshita))

1. (humble, formal) to say
2. (humble, formal) to be called

   こちらは田(た)中(なか)と申(もう)します。鈴(すず)木(き)さんはおいででしょうか。

   Kochira wa Tanaka to mōshimasu. Suzuki-san wa oide deshō ka.

   This is Tanaka speaking. Is Mr. Suzuki there?

   ジョンソンと申(もう)します。

   Jonson to mōshimasu.

   I am called Johnson.

3. (humble) to ask, request, or give thanks (to a kami or buddha)
4. (humble) to make a wish
5. (auxiliary) before a noun, usually with the honorific prefix 御 (o-/go-), to serve, perform an action for a superior
6. (auxiliary, archaic) attaches to 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem form”) of a verb: to formally or otherwise ceremonially do

• 暇(いとま)を申(もう)す (itoma o mōsu)

• そっと申(もう)せばがっと申(もう)す (sotto mōseba gatto mōsu)

/mausu/ → */maːsu/ → /masu/

Thought to be a shift from mōsu above, historical mausu.

• IPA^(key):

申(ま)す • (masu) transitive ^†yodan

1. (rare, obsolete) Same as もうす (mōsu) above

申す (mawosu) (kana まをす)

1. to say
2. to be called
3. to ask, request, or give thanks (to a kami or buddha)
4. to serve, perform an action for a superior
5. (auxiliary) attaches to 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem form”) of a verb: to formally or otherwise ceremonially do

Modern dictionaries use まおす (maosu) as reference to this verb.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:申す.

• 天の下申す (ame₂no₂sita mawosu)
• 物申す (mono₂mawosu)

⟨mawosu⟩ → */mawusu/ → /mausu/

Shift from mawosu above, attested in a few later poems of the Man'yōshū.

Since later poems also attest the use of earlier mawosu, a free variation of both pronunciations appears likely.

申す (mausu) (kana まうす)

1. (rare) Same as まをす (mawosu) above

• 申し給ふ (mausitamapu)

• Japanese: 申す (mōsu)