寝ぬ

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: S
kun’yomi

Etymology

From Old Japanese.

Compound (i, sleep, noun) + (nu, to sleep, verb; root of modern verb 寝る (neru, to sleep)).[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

寝ぬ (intransitive, shimo nidan conjugation, hiragana いぬ, rōmaji inu)

  1. (obsolete) to sleep

See also

References

  1. 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
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