おつ

Japanese

Etymology 1

[wot-] → [ot-]. Traces exist in 男 (おとこ) (otoko), 乙女 (おとめ) (otome), and 大人 (おとな) (otona).

Verb

おつ (godan conjugation, rōmaji otsu, historical hiragana をつ)

  1. 復つ: to become young
    • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 5, poem 847)
      和我佐可理 伊多久々　多知奴 久毛尓得夫 久須利波武等母 麻多遠知米也母
    • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 6, poem 1034)
      従古 人之言來流 老人之 變若云水曾 名尓負瀧之瀬
  2. 復つ: to be reborn
    • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 4, poem 650)
      吾妹児者 常世国尓 住家良思 昔見従 変若益尓家利
  3. 落つ, 墜つ, 堕つ: fall down, drop; fail an exam
Derived terms

Etymology 2
For pronunciation and definitions of おつ – see the following entry.
【乙】S
[proper noun]the second of the ten Celestial Stems
[noun]something B
  1. the second item of any ordered list
  2. (music) one tone lower than the note indicated by 甲 (kō, “something A”)
  3. (by extension from the musical sense) a lower, sonorous and moving sound or tone
  4. (noh theater) in noh musical accompaniment, a specific kind of muffled drum beat played by striking the head of the taiko drum and keeping the mallet pressed against the head
[noun](Kansai dialectal, slang) a stupid person, someone who is slow on the uptake
[noun](rare, possibly archaic) the state or circumstances of a thing
[noun](rare, possibly archaic) dressing up in an odd fashion
[adjective]out of the ordinary, strange or unusual in an interesting or stylish way
[adjective]strange, odd, weird
[interjection](Internet slang) Clipping of お疲れ様です (otsukaresama desu).
(This term, おつ, is the hiragana spelling of the Sino-Japanese term.)
For a list of all kanji with on'yomi おつ, not just those used in Sino-Japanese terms, see Category:Japanese kanji with on reading おつ.

References
  • Satake, Akihiro; Hideo Yamada; Rikio Kudō; Masao Ōtani; Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 1: Man’yōshū 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 1999, →ISBN.
  • Satake, Akihiro; Hideo Yamada; Rikio Kudō; Masao Ōtani; Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 2: Man’yōshū 2 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 2000, →ISBN.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.