いし

See also: いじ

Japanese

Etymology 1

Compound of い (i, emphatic marker) and し (shi, originally -si, emphatic marker). As -i was archaic even in Old Japanese, -si was attached to supplement it.

Particle

いし • (ishi) 

1. emphatic nominative case marker
   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 4, poem 537:

     事清 甚毛莫言 一日太尓 君伊之哭者 痛寸敢物

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   • 797: Shoku Nihongi (edict 13)

     是以王多知大臣乃子等治賜伊自天皇朝爾仕奉利婆婆爾仕奉爾波可在

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   • 797: Shoku Nihongi (edict 13)

     故是以子波祖乃心成伊自子爾波可在

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

See also

• いは (iwa)
• いも (imo)

Etymology 2

See 石.

Noun

いし • (ishi) 

1. 石: stone

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of いし – see the following entries.

【医師】 [noun] (medicine) doctor

【意志】 [noun] will (intention or decision)

【意思】 [noun] intention; intent; purpose; mind; a wish

【遺志】 [noun] will of the deceased; one's intent after death

【異志】 [noun] exceptionally good will; will that is different from others

【縊死】 [noun] death by hanging

(This term, いし (ishi), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.) For a list of all kanji read as いし, see Category:Japanese kanji read as いし.)

References

• Kurano, Kenji (1936) Shoku Nihongi Senmyō (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
• Satake, Akihiro with Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, and Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 1: Man’yōshū 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 1999, →ISBN.

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Noun

いし (romaji ishi)

1. 石: stone