かへる

• (c.800) IPA^(key): /kaɸeru/
• (c.1050) IPA^(key): /kaweru/
• (c.1350) IPA^(key): /kajeru/

⟨kape₁ru⟩ → /kaperu/ → /kaferu/

From Old Japanese kapyeru (stem: kapyer-), Eastern Old Japanese kapyiru.[1] Derived in turn from Proto-Japonic *kapi-ra-, root *kapi- (“to turn”).

The intransitive counterpart to transitive / causative form かへす (kafesu, “to give something back; to make something go back”).[2]

かへる (quadrigrade, intransitive, rōmaji kaferu, stem kafer-)

1. (反る, 返る) circumstances or things become backwards or flipped:
   1. (反る) to turn backwards, to flip or turn so the back side is facing forwards; to turn upside-down; to fall over on a side
   2. (反る) to change in shape or quality, to fade in color
2. (反る, 返る, 帰る, 還る) circumstances or things go back to their original position or state:
   1. (帰る) to arrive back home; to leave in order to go home
   2. (返る, 還る) to return or go back to an original state
   3. (返る) to start again, to renew (generally in reference to the new year)
      1. (attributive) early the following (year, etc.)
         • early 1000s, Sarashina Nikki:

           かへる年 (とし)のつかさめしに

           kaferu toshi no tsukameshi ni

           at the summoning of the following year's new officials

• かへりいます (kaferiimasu): to come/go back (honorific)
• かへりく (kaferiku): to come back
• かへりごと (kaferigoto): reply; (gift given as) recompense
• かへりまうづ (kaferimaudu): to come/go back (humble)
• かへりまうでく (kaferimaudeku): to come back (humble)
• かへりゆく (kaferiyuku): to go back

• Japanese: かえる (kaeru) (反る, 返る, 帰る, 還る)