うきぶくろ

Japanese
Alternative spellings
浮き袋
浮袋
浮き囊 (rare)
鰾

Etymology

From 浮(う)き (uki, “連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 浮(う)く (uku).”) + 袋(ふくろ) (fukuro). The fukuro changes to bukuro as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) うきぶ​くろ [ùkíbúꜜkùrò] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ɯ̟ᵝkʲibɯ̟ᵝkɯ̟ᵝɾo̞]

Noun

うきぶくろ • (ukibukuro) ←うきぶくろ (ukibukuro)?

  1. swim bladder

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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