飛び越える

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 4

Grade: S
kun’yomi

Etymology

/tobikoju/(grammatical shift) /tobikojeru//tobikoeru/

From Old Japanese.

Compound of 飛び (tobi, jumping, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, continuative or stem form) of verb 飛ぶ (tobu, to jump; to fly)) + 超ゆ (koyu, to go across, earlier form of modern 超える (koeru, to go acoss)).[1]

The 下二段 (shimo nidan, lower bigrade) verb koyu changed to the modern koeru via regular historical processes during roughly the Muromachi period.

Pronunciation

Verb

飛び越える (intransitive, ichidan conjugation, hiragana とびこえる, rōmaji tobikoeru)

  1. to jump (over)
     (うま) (さく) () ()えました
    Uma ga saku o tobikoemashita.
    The horse cleared the fence.

Conjugation

See also

References

  1. 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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