峰ろ

Japanese

Kanji in this term
峰
お Grade: S
kun’yomi

Etymology

/woro₂/ → /worə/ → /woro/ → /oro/. From noun 峰 (o, “peak”) + suffix ろ (ro).

Noun

峰(お)ろ • (oro) ^{←をろ (woro)?}

1. a mountain peak
   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 14, poem 3468:

     夜麻杼里乃 乎呂能波都乎尓 可賀美可家 刀奈布倍美許曽 奈尓与曽利鶏米

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   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 14, poem 3501:

     安波乎呂能 乎呂田尓於波流 多波美豆良 比可婆奴流奴留 安乎許等奈多延

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See also

• 峰 (o, ne, mine)

References

• Satake, Akihiro with Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, and Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 3: Man’yōshū 3 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 2002, →ISBN.