汝妹

Japanese
Kanji in this term
汝 妹
なにも
Jinmeiyō Grade: 2
jukujikun

Etymology

Old Japanese. From 汝 (na, variably first- or second-person pronoun: "I" or "you"; here used to mean "I") +‎ の (no, possessive particle) +‎ 妹 (imo, “a male's sister”).[1][2][3] The no fused with the imo, likely to avoid hiatus in Old Japanese, which did not allow such vowel-vowel combinations.

First attested in 712.[1]

Note that the usual possessive marker for pronouns was が (ga), as in 汝が (na ga, “thy; thine”) or 我が, 吾が (wa ga, a ga, “my”), as in 我が夫 (wa ga se, “my husband; my beloved man”), 吾妹 (wagimo, “my wife; my beloved woman”), 吾が君 (a ga kimi, “my lord”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [na̠ɲ̟imo̞]

Noun

汝妹(なにも) • (nanimo) 

  1. [from 712] (archaic, men's speech) an intimate form of address for a female by a male: "my sister"[4]
    Coordinate term: 汝兄 (nanimo, “a form of address for a male by a female: "my brother"”)
    愛(うつくしき)我(あが)那(な)邇(に)妹(もの)命(みこと)
    Utsukushiki a ga nanimo no mikoto
    Thine Augustness, my dear sister

References
  1. “汝妹”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. “汝妹”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
  3. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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