ゲームソフト

Japanese

Etymology

Wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism), derived from game +‎ soft,[1] equivalent to ゲーム (gēmu, “video game”) + ソフト (sofuto, “software”).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) ゲームソ​フト [gèémú sóꜜfùtò] (Nakadaka – [4])[2]
  • IPA(key): [ɡe̞ːmɯ̟ᵝ so̞ɸɯ̟ᵝto̞]

Noun

ゲームソフト • (gēmu sofuto) 

  1. video game software (the program of a video game)

References
  1. “ゲームソフト”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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