死語

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
死 語
し
Grade: 3 		ご
Grade: 2
goon

Etymology

From 死 (shi, “death, dead”) +‎ 語 (go, “language”).

The first sense is a calque of English dead language.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

死(し)語(ご) • (shigo) 

  1. (linguistics) a dead language (language that no longer has native speakers)
  2. (lexicography) an obsolete word, paleologism
    Synonym: 廃語 (haigo)
    Antonym: 活語 (katsugo)

References

  1. ^ “死語”, in ブリタニカ国際大百科事典 小項目事典 (Buritanika Kokusai Dai Hyakka Jiten: Shō Kōmoku Jiten, “Encyclopædia Britannica International: Micropædia”)‎[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Britannica Japan Co., Ltd., 2014
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