寝ぬ

Japanese
Kanji in this term
寝
い
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Etymology

From Old Japanese.

Compound 寝 (i, “sleep”, noun) +‎ 寝 (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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