ひたき
Japanese
Pronunciation 1
Etymology
Referred originally just to the 尉鶲 (jō bitaki, “Phoenicurus auroreus or Daurian redstart”), later came to refer to a number of visually similar species.
Likely a shift from 火焚き (hitaki, “lighting a fire”) below, from the characteristic call of the bird, which resembles the sound of striking a flint against a firestarter.[1][2][3]
Noun
- 鶲, 火焼: an Old World flycatcher: a bird belonging to the Muscicapidae family
Usage notes
As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as ヒタキ.
Pronunciation 2
Etymology 1
Compound of 火 (hi, “fire”) + 焚き (taki, “burning, lighting, setting alight”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 焚く (taku, “to burn, to light, to set alight”)).[1][2][3]
Noun
- 火焚き, 火焼き: building a fire; watchman responsible for keeping fires alit; a place where a fire can be lit (furnace, hearth, etc.)
Proper noun
- 火焚, 肥田木: Lua error in Module:names at line 629: dot= and nodot= are no longer supported in Template:surname because a trailing period is no longer added by default; if you want it, add it explicitly after the template
Etymology 2
Compound of 日 (hi, “sun”) + 滝 (taki, “waterfall”).
Proper noun
- 日滝: a place name
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN