白い

Japanese

Kanji in this term
しろ
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Etymology

Modern form of Old Japanese adjective しろし (shiroshi).

⟨siro1si⟩ (classical 終止形 (shūshikei) or terminal form) → ⟨siro1ki1 (classical 連体形 (rentaikei) or attributive form) → /siroi/ (modern shūshikei and rentaikei)

An intervocalic sound-change caused the medial plosive /-k-/ to undergo voicing, then spirantization, then gliding, then being dropped, before /-i, -u, -e, -o/ (Hamano, 2000).

⟨siro1ki1 → */sirʷokʲi/ → */sirʷogʲi/ → */sirʷoɣi/ → */sirʷoji//siroi/[ɕiɾo̞i].

Pronunciation

Adjective

白い (-i inflection, hiragana しろい, rōmaji shiroi)

  1. white

Inflection

References

  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
  • Hamano, S. Journal of East Asian Linguistics (2000) 9: 207. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008367619295
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