つげぐし

Japanese
Alternative spellings
黄楊櫛
つげ櫛

Etymology

From 黄楊(つげ) (tsuge) + 櫛(くし) (kushi). The kushi changes to gushi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) つげぐし [tsùgégúshí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [t͡sɨᵝɡe̞ɡɯ̟ᵝɕi]

Noun

つげぐし • (tsugegushi) ←つげぐし (tugegusi)?

  1. comb made from the wood of the Japanese box

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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