死語

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Chinese[edit]

 
to die; impassable; uncrossable
to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid
 
speech; language; dialect
speech; language; dialect; tell to
trad. (死語)
simp. (死语)

Etymology[edit]

Calque of English dead language.

Pronunciation[edit]


Noun[edit]

死語

  1. (linguistics) dead language

Synonyms[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji in this term

Grade: 3

Grade: 2
goon

Etymology[edit]

From (shi, death, dead) +‎ (go, language).

The first sense is a calque of English dead language.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

()() (shigo

  1. (linguistics) a dead language (language that no longer has native speakers)
  2. (lexicography) an obsolete word, paleologism
    Synonym: 廃語 (haigo)
    Antonym: 活語 (katsugo)

References[edit]

  1. ^ 死語”, in ブリタニカ国際大百科事典 小項目事典 (Buritanika Kokusai Dai Hyakka Jiten: Shō Kōmoku Jiten, Encyclopædia Britannica International: Micropædia)[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Britannica Japan Co., Ltd., 2014
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006) 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN