みみしい

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Japanese

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Alternative spellings
聾 (rare)
耳癈 (rare)

Etymology

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Compound of 耳 (mimi, “ear; sense of hearing”) +‎ 癈 (shii, “loss of faculty: numbness, blindness, deafness, etc.”, compounding element, originally the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of Old Japanese verb 癈ふ (shipu), modern 癈いる (shiiru, “to lose a sense: to go numb, blind, deaf, etc.”)).[1][2][3]

First attested in the Shinsen Jikyō (898-901), with the spelling 耳志比. The Wamyō Ruijushō (c. 934) also records 美々之比.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • Historical evolution of the Kyoto pitch accent
※ H for high and flat syllables (◌́), L for low and flat syllables (◌̀), F for high-to-low syllables (◌̂), R for low-to-high syllables (◌̌).
※ References: [1]

Noun

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みみしい • (mimishī) ←みみしひ (mimisifi)?

  1. 聾, 耳癈: [late 800s – ???] (archaic, possibly obsolete) deafness, deaf
    Synonyms: (current) 聾 (rō), つんぼ (tsunbo, derogatory), 難聴 (nanchō)
  2. 聾, 耳癈: [late 800s – ???] (archaic, possibly obsolete) a deaf person
    Synonyms: (current) 聾者 (rōsha), 強度難聴者 (kyōdo nanchōsha, literally “severely hearing-impaired person”)

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 “みみ‐しい［‥しひ］ 【聾・耳癈】Paid subscription required”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎[1] (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2000-2002, released online 2007, →ISBN, concise edition entry available here
  2. ^ “しい［しひ］ 【癈】Paid subscription required”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎[2] (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2000-2002, released online 2007, →ISBN, concise edition entry available here
  3. ^ “癈いる”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎[3] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
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