鶯張り

Japanese
鶯張り
Kanji in this term
鶯 張
うぐいす
Hyōgaiji		 は > ば
Grade: 5
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 鶯 (uguisu, “Japanese bush warbler”) +‎ 張り (hari, “stretching”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 張る haru, "to stretch"), from the way that the floor creaks upon pressure. The hari changes to bari as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Noun

鶯張り (hiragana うぐいすばり, rōmaji uguisubari, historical hiragana うぐひすばり)

  1. nightingale floor

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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