| Alternative spellings |
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| 疫病み 疫病 瘧 |
The 疫 (e) + 病み (yami, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 病む yamu “to fall ill, be sick (with)”).
| This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “For the component 疫, in place of the kun'yomi reading え (e), plausibility that the first component could have alternatively represented the Kan'on えき (← Middle Chinese 疫 (MC ywek)), with イ音便 (i onbin, “i sound shift”) related shifts (i.e. dropping of /-k-/ before /-i/). ⟨eki1yami1⟩ → */ekʲijami/ → */eijami/ → */ejːami/ → * /ejami/ → [e̞ja̠mʲi].” |