契る

Japanese

Kanji in this term
ちぎ
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Etymology

May be from Old Japanese. First appears in the Utsubo Monogatari of the late 900s CE.[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

契る (transitive, godan conjugation, hiragana ちぎる, rōmaji chigiru)

  1. to swear something, to pledge something

Conjugation

References

  1. 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.