みそじ

Japanese

Alternative spellings
三十 三十歳 三十路

Etymology

/misodi/ → /misozi/. Shift from earlier みそち (misochi), which is from Old Japanese, a compound of 三十 (miso, “thirty”) +‎ ち (chi, a suffix derived from つ (tsu), an Old Japanese counter). The -chi changes to -ji as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) みそじ [mìsójí] (Heiban – [0])
• (Tokyo) み​そじ [míꜜsòjì] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [mʲiso̞ʑi]

Noun

みそじ • (misoji) ^{←みそぢ (misodi)?}

1. (uncommon) thirty
2. (uncommon) thirty years of age

Related terms

• 十路(そじ) (soji)
• 二十歳(はたち) (hatachi)
• 四十路(よそじ) (yosoji)
• 五十路(いそじ) (isoji)
• 六十路(むそじ) (musoji)
• 七十路(ななそじ) (nanasoji)
• 八十路(やそじ) (yasoji)
• 九十路(ここのそじ) (kokonosoji)