変若つ

Japanese

Kanji in this term
変	若
Grade: 4	Grade: 6

Alternative spelling
變若つ (kyūjitai)

Etymology

[wot-] > [ot-]. Traces exist in otoko and otome.

Verb

変若(お)つ • (otsu) ^{←をつ (wotu)?}godan (stem 変若(お)ち (ochi), past 変若(お)った (otta))

1. to become young
   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 5, poem 847:

     和我佐可理 伊多久々　多知奴 久毛尓得夫 久須利波武等母 麻多遠知米也母

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 6, poem 1034:

     従古 人之言來流 老人之 變若云水曾 名尓負瀧之瀬

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. to be reborn
   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 4, poem 650:

     吾妹児者 常世国尓 住家良思 昔見従 変若益尓家利

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

• Satake, Akihiro with Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, and Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 1: Man’yōshū 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 1999, →ISBN.
• Satake, Akihiro with Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, and Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 2: Man’yōshū 2 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 2000, →ISBN.