韋駄天走り

Japanese
Kanji in this term
韋 駄 天 走
い
Hyōgaiji		 だ
Grade: S		 てん
Grade: 1		 はし > ばし
Grade: 2

Etymology

Compound of 韋駄天 (idaten, “Skanda (Buddhism)”) +‎ 走り (hashiri, “running”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 走る hashiru, "to run"). The hashiri changes to bashiri as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) いだてんば​しり [ìdátéńbáꜜshìrì] (Nakadaka – [5])[1][2]
  • IPA(key): [ida̠tẽ̞mba̠ɕiɾʲi]

Noun

韋駄天走り (hiragana いだてんばしり, rōmaji idatenbashiri, historical hiragana ゐだてんばしり)

  1. running extremely fast

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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