ぬじ
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See also: ぬし
Old Japanese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compare modern Okinawan ぬーじ (nuːdʑi) and Miyako ぬず (nudzɿ).
Noun[edit]
ぬじ (nuzi)
- a rainbow
- Synonym: のじ (nozi)
- 720, Nihon Shoki, (Emperor Tenmu part 2, eleventh year of reign [684 CE], fifth day of the eighth month in autumn):
- 丙寅、造二法令一殿內、有二大虹一。
- On the day of the Fire Tiger, laws were drawn within the palace, and there was a large rainbow.
- 720, Nihon Shoki, (Emperor Tenmu part 2, eleventh year of reign [684 CE], seventeenth day of the eighth month in autumn):
- 戊寅、亦地震動。是日平旦、有レ虹、當二于天中央一、以向レ日。
- On the day of the Earth Tiger, there was another earthquake. On dawn this day, there was a rainbow at the middle of the sky, opposite the sun.
Descendants[edit]
- >? Japanese: 虹 (nuji → niji)