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新しい

新しい

Japanese

Kanji in this term
Grade: 2

Adjective

新しい (-i inflection, hiragana あたらしい, romaji atarashii)

  1. new

Etymology 2

From the attributive form of the Early Middle Japanese adjective atarashi: /atarashiki/ > /atarashii/, with the medial /-k-/ falling out. Originally meant “precious” or “regrettable”, /atarasi/ took on the meaning of “new” from /aratasi/ when the medial -rata- metathesized to -tara-.

Adjective

新しい (-i inflection, hiragana あたらしい, romaji atarashii)

  1. precious; regrettable
  2. new

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) たらし [àtáráshíꜜì] (Nakadaka - [4])[1]
  • IPA(key): [a̠ta̠ɾ̠a̠ɕiː]
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References

  1. 1974, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Second Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō