喘ぐ

See also: 喘く

Japanese

Kanji in this term
あえ
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Etymology

⟨ape2ku⟩/apəɨku/ → */afeku//afeɡu//aweɡu//aeɡu/

Shift from Old Japanese 喘く (⟨ape2ku⟩ → aeku), voicing apparent possibly in Early Middle Japanese or sometime after the Heian period.[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

喘ぐ (intransitive, godan conjugation, hiragana あえぐ, rōmaji aegu, historical hiragana あへぐ)

  1. to gasp, pant
     (あえ) (ごえ)
    aegigoe
    gasping vocalizations (especially those made during lovemaking)
  2. to suffer

Conjugation

Derived terms

  •  (あえ) (aegi)
  •  (あえ) (あえ) (aegiaegi)

Proverbs

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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