そね

Japanese

Etymology 1

Alternative spellings
磽 确

From Old Japanese そね (so₂ne), from Proto-Japonic *səne. Cognate with Proto-Ryukyuan *sone (“place to catch fish”).

Noun

そね • (sone) 

1. 磽, 确: (dialect) the ridge of a mountain
2. 磽, 确: (dialect) the summit of a mountain
3. 磽, 确: (obsolete) a fertile plot of land with many rocks
4. 磽, 确: (obsolete) the hill of a rock

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Noun

そね • (sone) 

1. (dialect) Synonym of 犬四手 (inushide, “Chonowski's hornbeam (Carpinus tschonoskii)”)

Etymology 3

Alternative spellings
曾根 曾禰

Likely cognate with そね (sone, “ridge; summit”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) そね [sòné] (Heiban – [0]) (surname only)
• IPA^(key): [so̞ne̞]

Proper noun

そね • (sone) 

1. 曾根, 曾禰: a surname
2. 曾禰: a placename in modern-day Yamanashi Prefecture

Old Japanese

Etymology

From Proto-Japonic *səne. Cognate with Proto-Ryukyuan *sone (“place to catch fish”).

Noun

そね (so₂ne)

1. a fertile plot of land with many rocks
   • 720, Nihon Shoki:

     阿佐膩簸囉　鳴贈祢鳴須擬(■)　謨謀逗柁甫　奴底喩羅倶慕与　於岐毎倶羅之慕

     asadipara; woso₂ne wo sugi₂(te?); momodutapu; nute yuraku mo yo₂; oki₁me₂ ku rasi mo

     Field of sparse cogon; past by the fertile rockland; going through many; the bell is soundly ringing! Okime may have came through!

Descendants

• Japanese: そね (sone, “ridge; summit”, dialect)
  • >? Japanese: 曽根 (Sone)